I b0rked Firefox


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Ok, so I was just reading the list your extensions thread and thought, "Alright then, I'll get some of these, they sound good".

I think I might have overdone it. Is that even possible? So, I closed it completely and then went to launch it again to install my new extensions; now when I go to launch firefox it is running in the task manager but nothing actually appears on screen.

As far as I can tell it can only be to do with these extensions that are trying to install, I think I got about 8-10 new ones... What can I do? :cry:

Posting from IE :(

Edit: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have any effect but I have rebooted twice since.

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re-install - next time test each extension before use, but I don't see how extensions could damage it. . . well I do but, why would they. . .

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What you'll want to do is find C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME HERE\Application Data\Mozilla

Rename that to somehting else and it will make a new profile.

You can still save your old bookmarks.htm and other such files and copy that into the new profile folder from the old one (while Firefox is closed of course.) Just don't copy over the whole profile. That will copy over whatever is b0rked too.

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Load firefox in safe mode and disable the extensions one at a time to see? which is causing the problem

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The same nothing happens. The firefox.exe process is running though.
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you didnt install one of those extensions which isn't a simple one, like the ones you have to manually hack ffx a bit did you? cus if u did a re-install would probably be ur best option - ull haev to delete the extensions + probably the plugins if you reinstall. losing ur settings aint that bad tho dw

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this stuff happens to me ofter. i just kill the process in the task manager and run firefox again. works fine.

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you didnt install one of those extensions which isn't a simple one, like the ones you have to manually hack ffx a bit did you? cus if u did a re-install would probably be ur best option - ull haev to delete the extensions + probably the plugins if you reinstall. losing ur settings aint that bad tho dw

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Nope, they were all simple one-click-installs. No hackage whatsoever.

I just reinstalled, no change :|

this stuff happens to me ofter. i just kill the process in  the task manager and run firefox again. works fine.

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Errr... hmm.. actually, no. :o
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It's all ok now. :)

I backed up my profile directory and then when I heard about the 1.0.6 release just uninstalled .5 and installed .6

All my settings returned as they were before and all my new plugins were just there :o Awesome powa!

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