Date: 03/15/08     Keywords: browser, google

My Grandfather's computer is running FireFox v2.0.0.12 and when he left on a trip everything was fine. When he came back apparently there are Script Problems.

Everytime he tries to open the browser an error message lets him know that:
"Warning: Unresponsive script

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete."

I thought initially that his homepage (myway.com) was having issues so when I went over to fix it, I changed his homepage to google, tried it again and the same error message.

He has no addins, extensions, or themes. It doesn't matter what his homepage is he gets this script error.

I know I'm not much of a computer guy so any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/409395.html

Date: 03/10/08     Keywords: no keywords

I've got about three years worth of images collected from a mailing list I'm on in a couple of folders. I'd like to get rid of those folders, as well as move the images to my hard drive for sorting purposes. Is there a script or a plug-in that will let me export attachments from Thunderbird automagically, as opposed to one-by-one?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/409112.html

Date: 03/05/08     Keywords: yahoo

not to long ago (as in before my parent messed with my internet) i managed a way to have all my yahoo mail sent to my verizon account, which i then could check with thunderbird


problem is i can't remember how i did it for the life of me >.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/409003.html

Date: 03/02/08     Keywords: virus

Today I noticed that I couldn't change the position of any of my tabs. Each tab was basically stuck in the position that it was opened in. This isn't a huge deal, but it personally annoys me. After googling I came up with this. I followed the instructions and removed the advertismen.com code. This took care of my copy/paste problem, but the tabs are still stuck.

So far:
I ran my anti-virus and Spybot twice (advertismen.com removed)
Deleted suspicious files
Restarted computer
Followed intructions in aforementioned link
Created a new Firefox profile
Reinstalled Firefox

Does anyone know how to fix this? D:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/408775.html

Date: 02/24/08     Keywords: no keywords

Is there a way of saving the tabs in Firefox so as it opens the ones you were looking at last time you used it? Hmm, I'm sure there's a better way of explaining that. When the computer has shut down unexpectedly, Firefox offers you the option of restoring your previous session when you restart it. Is there a way of making it do that as standard? I can't find any suitable add-ons.

Thanks very much for any help you can give me.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/408351.html

Date: 02/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

So, you know how Firefox saves the sites you visit the most in the address bar with the drop-down arrow? I started Firefox this morning and it's acting like my I completely erased all my cookies because it's not loading any of my most visited sites. Even when I click on links, the blue link doesn't change to purple once I click it and doesn't register in my history. In fact, my history side-bar is completely blank. It doesn't have anything that I've visited even since opening Firefox this morning. I quit it and restarted it just in case it was a fluke, and it did the same thing. It's acting like I've never even used it before every time I restart it. Does anyone know why this could be? I'm on a Mac, by the way.

ETA: I think I fixed it. Under the 'Privacy' tab in Preferences, the 'remember visited pages for the last __ days' was unchecked. I don't know how it happened, but it seems to be fixed now. Does anyone know what the standard number of days to remember is? I just put in 50, but I'm curious as to what the default setting is.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/408317.html

Date: 02/16/08     Keywords: cms, browser, java

(Cross-posted to javascript)

A couple of years ago, I used this code to build a rich text editor for an inhouse CMS at work. One of the smaller bugs that I've never bothered to deal with until now was that whenever you used the editor in a Firefox/Mozilla browser, the page never stopped loading. I've been Googling and working on it today, with no success.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? If so, what did you do to fix it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/407974.html

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

On a game site that I visit regularly, I would click to play the game and up would come another window that I would play the game in. I didn't like the size so I would drag the window out to a larger size using my cursor. Now, I can't do that anymore and I don't know why.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/407562.html

Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

How do I block "floaters", the Flash-based ads that float on top of the page?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/407350.html

Date: 02/02/08     Keywords: no keywords

Whenever I now try and use the Torbutton with Firefox 2 (vs. 2.0.0.11) it just tells me the proxy server is refusing connections.



~*Error Message*~



The proxy server is refusing connections












Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections.







* Check the proxy settings to make sure that they are correct.

* Contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is
working.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/407105.html

Date: 01/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

Hi all - I started using Firefox several months ago, had LJ addons and have never had a problem until now. As of last night, the comments on entries aren't threading, they're all as if people aren't replying to each other but commenting on the entry directly. I tried uninstalling the LJ addons and reinstalling it but that didn't fix it. It was happening so much I opened up a IE window to see if it was actually LJ but things were fine there.

I'm finding this morning that they are threading properly on a certain friend's journal but not in others and not in any communities.

Is anyone else having this problem or know how I can fix it?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/406697.html

Date: 01/05/08     Keywords: css, html, web

For some reason CSS display randomly stops working for certain websites. It isn't bad coding... Rather, it's as if Firefox isn't reading the CSS. LiveJournal, Photobucket, and MySpace are examples. The pages display in pure HTML, without formatting of any kind and it's ugly. Drives me a little nuts on sites with div navigation.

Here's a screen grab.

It's happened once or twice before. In my XP machine and now my Vista laptop. It isn't scripts or adblock because I've disabled all that. It's nothing on my system because when I ended up doing a clean reinstall of Firefox, it was fine again.

Anyone know of this issue or how I can fix it without having to do another clean reinstall? I'd like to avoid having to customize from scratch again with all my favorite scripts and and extensions.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/406168.html

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: html, google

I recently had to get my iBook repaired by Apple (I really should learn not to spill tea on the keyboard), and they returned it to me with the hard drive wiped. I've been putting things back together, including installing Firefox again, but there's something I can't find on the Mozilla home page or with a Google search, and it's driving me nuts.

I know there's a way to do something in Preferences, I think in the Advanced section on fonts, that will make ♥ (the html for a heart symbol) show up as an actual heart and not the vertical line it's appearing as now. I think I found the way to do this from a link to the old LJ community for Firefox fans that has since been deleted. Is there anyone here who knows what I'm talking about and how to make it happen?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/405825.html

Date: 12/12/07     Keywords: browser

Ever since upgrading to the newest version of firefox, I will get the "red dot of doom" as graphic files are loading, instead of the regular placeholder graphic that browsers, including firefox, usually have.

In the past, this meant that the cache was full. Once you emptied it and restarted firefox, everything would be fine.

Now, it seems to show up arbitrarily. My cache will be nowhere near full (4 MB with a 150 MB limit.) However, if I exit out of firefox and start it back up again, it is fine.

Has anyone else been having this problem? (I'm on windows xp sp2) I'm also using the noscript and download helper add-ons.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/405698.html

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: web

I don't know what the hell is up with my laptop lately, and I'm not sure if it's had something to do with FireFox magically not working, but maybe someone here can help a gal out.
FireFox updated itself yesterday, and now when I open it, I get an unable to connect error stating:

# The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

# If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

# If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

It's most definitely not the first two bullets. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem who could possibly tell me what to do? I loathe IE.

I have Vista, by the way.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/404940.html

Date: 11/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

My "send link" stopped working on Mozilla Firefox. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and it did not correct the problem. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/404651.html

Date: 11/14/07     Keywords: browser, web

Question/Problem: this one has been around for a while i just have been too lazy to fix it.
i use firefox and i cant download anything through it. I have to open explorer to download anything. The same goes with pictures, i cant save any pictures in firefox either

Operating System and VERSION: Windows XP

Web Browser and VERSION: FireFox 2.0.0.9

Your level of experience: Intermediate

Duration of problem: a few months now

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? ive tried everything that has been suggested by everyone ive asked. cleared data, uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and everything but i doenst seem to want to work anymore :(

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/404358.html

Date: 11/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

For some strange reason, my Firefox has begun to automatically execute--as if I were left-clicking--whenever I right-click. The context menu (if applicable) will still pop up, but the default action of the button/link occurs.

It just started this afternoon for no apparent reason that I can comprehend. As far as I am aware, I haven't made any changes to Firefox recently, I haven't made any changes to my OS configuration recently, and I haven't installed any new programs recently. After the bug began to occur, I did go through with the upgrade from 2.0.0.8 to 2.0.0.9 just to see if that would resolve the issue, but it did not.

Anyone have any ideas, suggestions, educated guesses, or wild guesses?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/404142.html

Date: 11/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

How can I turn off self-aligning windows? It drives me nuts...when I move a window (say like the download window) to the side, its because I want to look at two things at once, it doesn't mean that I want all windows to move to the same location.


I'm on a mac, OSX 10.4.10, and whatever the most updated firefox is...

thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/403741.html

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Update 2: Ahh shit, apparently wildcards don't work?!? For some reason, it allows me to enter a "*" (and domain names can only contain, by design, 0-9, a-z, and _ or - so its not like * or any other character will ever be in a domain name) but, refuses to interpret it! So it looks like blocking cookies from ads.* won't work. That, um, really sucks. At least it is honoring the top-level domain thing tho.

Update: Nevermind, I found it.. its just that the box to type it in is a really dim grey outline at the top of the popup window and I'm still not used to using a Mac in the first place, LOL...

Seriously, the bottom of the textbox is literally invisible due to the intersection of a white background in firefox (instead of brushed metal I guess). With no brushed metal, what I get is a partly outlined white-textbox on a white background, with no bottom, to enter URLs in! LOL. Fucking mac!

Any dentists around that can give a Firefox some brushed metal fillings?
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How do I tell Firefox that livejournal.com domains are allowed to set cookies?

Since livejournal.com unfortunately jumps straight to www.livejournal.com, I never get a chance to be asked if I want to allow domain cookies, so my only options currently appear to be "Let anyone lay down tracking cookies whenever they want", "Break all compatibility with anything that needs a login", or "Pester me each and every time I visit a different journal".

Crap like esomniture, which has a scheme that uses unlimited subdomains in a pathetic attempt to bypass /etc/hosts blocking, that I can just adblock or create fake DNS entries for to get rid of it entirely. Obviously thats not the case with LJ...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/403690.html