Firefox weirdness
I woke up today and started my computer (I am one who shuts down at night - anyway it's a good idea with Vista) and all sorts of strange things happened.
Internet Explorer closed itself as soon as the start tabs loaded (some would say that is a good feature); and Firefox displays the wrong icon(s) for the Firebug toolbar buttons (eg Inspect - see image) and does not display graphics, does not display the Web Developer toolbar, does not even give an option for the WD toolbar.
I ran CCleaner and tried two restore points - the IE problem resolved, but I started getting errors on some DLL for Copernic Search, and I could not uninstall Copernic I had to delete it manually.
A few reboots later, and the Firefox issue remains. I tried reinstalling Firefox, checked settings (load graphics is on), uninstalled and reinstalled Firebug and Web Developer. This is how it looks:
One time I clicked a link in an email and Firefox displayed normally - but I have not been able to replicate it.
The last few things to change:
Today:
Firefox installed an update for Fireshot, I tried disabling and uninstalling it.
Yesterday:
I updated Filezilla
I installed Windows updates (removed by rolling back to restore point(s))
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decibel.places posted this at 03:03 — 25th February 2009.
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A sweep with SpyBot temporarily restored Firefox, but the problems soon reoccurred.
A comment on the Firefox Support Forum led me to the page about Firefox Safe Mode
First I tried resetting the toolbars.
Then I disabled all addons and VOILA - and I re-enabled the ones I really use without any problem (Firebug, Web Developer, MeasureIt, Colorzilla, RankQuest, a few more) \
happy happy joy joy
cmoyer posted this at 23:05 — 28th February 2009.
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I had the same problem and after disabling the theme and chosing a different one it worked fine. I have no idea about what part of the theme was causing it and I havn't been able to replicate it. The theme was some vista theme I believe.
It may be a firefox bug...
JeevesBond posted this at 16:56 — 1st March 2009.
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Yes, that does look like a Vista/Firefox bug, it could also be an extension issue. Very weird, and one of those 'deep' bugs that are ridiculously difficult to reproduce.
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