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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. -- Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion. |
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Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....
98 Guy wrote:
Etal wrote: "the FF forum" Which forum is that? I don't find your nick in mozilla.support.firefox at the news.mozilla.org news-server. I've never gotten much of anything useful out of the usenet firefox forums, or any on-line firefox / mozilla forums. netscape.public.mozilla.general, not that i follow you around. :-) -- Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion. |
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Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:16:14 +0100, Etal
wrote: 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? After the config editing stuff-up, the previous occasional lockup became decidedly more frequent, to the point where it ceased to be an annoyance and became a real PITA. Sometimes it would even lock up or error on startup, as soon as the (blank) startup page appeared. 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. For some reason, I couldn't delete the the entry. It was one that was there by default, to which I had apparently added an invalid value (i.e. 20 to a binary ...). I could neither change nor delete it. So, a full reinstall was probably overkill, but there was perhaps other issues causing the lockup that doing that cleared up. There were other lockup issues prior (as mentioned above). The cleanout (not just remove)/reinstall got rid of the bad-edit-effect issues but the original ones are still there after the reinstallation. So really the matter of editing config is now history, it is just an example of how 98 users are at best ignored in these forums. |
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Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....
Etal wrote:
I've never gotten much of anything useful out of the usenet firefox forums, or any on-line firefox / mozilla forums. netscape.public.mozilla.general, not that i follow you around. Yea, I get around. For who-ever was asking about good firefox / mozilla forums, here's your answer: Point your usenet client to news.mozilla.org, and then open mozilla.support.firefox. 140,000 posts since january 2006. It seems quite active, but I doubt you'll get much satisfaction starting a discussion about firefox (any version) and win-98. |
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