Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....

who where wrote:

Etal wrote:

pedro wrote:

As both the FF and Opera versions are "obsolete" they also
tend to attract nothing but sneers . I have a standing
query in the FF forum about how to DELETE a parameter
which was inserted into the about:config page in 2.0.0.20
with a typo, and no responses.



Open 'about:config'. Select the offending preference-entry
in the list. In the context-menu (pulled up by
right-clicking) select 'Reset'. Quit and then relaunch
Firefox and verify that the entry have disappeared from the
'about:config' preferences-list.

It was causing repeated lockups. A complete
remove/reg-clean/reinstall removed the corrupted key, although
the lockups remain. One of the main reasons I am looking at
Opera ...


Just having the errant preference entry present caused the
lockups?, or trying to remove it?

If Firefox locked up so you couldn't use 'about:config' to remove
the entry, know that settings you modify and_or add via the
'about:config' interface is saved in a file, [prefs.js], located
in Firefox's profile folder.
Search you /HardDisk/ for 'prefs.js' and open it in a plain-text
editor (Notepad) and delete the offending entry. Or simple rename
[prefs.js] to something else and you would be back to all
default settings.

So, a full reinstall was probably overkill, but there was perhaps
other issues causing the lockup that doing that cleared up.


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