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Mozilla/Firefox Browser issue
So, did the recent upgrade and when I double click on a thread response to open the default browser, I get this error message.
 Then it will open after a wait. Anyone know the fix? Since the upgrade Firefox has been wonky and running worse than IE..... EDIT: If a FF Browser is already open, no error message.
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did you have IE running when you upgraded FF ?
which FF are you running ? 4 ? I'd suggest dumping (delete) FF make sure no other browser is open, re-install FF4 |
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Tried that....no good. same problem.
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I've had the same problem along with a script error.
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don't understand why you are getting a windows error inside a FireFox browser...
Windows should not be looking for that ! |
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19 years and 17k posts...
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The new version of FireFox is slow and buggy for me, so far...
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03-29-2011, 01:34 PM
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i installed FF4 on several PCs with no issue at all.
Try uninstalling it, reboot, do a system restore, reboot and reinstall it, reboot (do not open it first) and see what happens.
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03-29-2011, 02:19 PM
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Google Chrome will fix it.
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I'm ready to dump FF......has issues. I like the auto spell check....that's it.
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Google Chrome rules! I have Safari and Internet Explorer on this MacBookPro, but neither are any where NEAR as fast as Chrome. IE is just junk- it's free, that's the only thing you can say about it. Safari is slower than Chrome, and not as easy to use, same with Firefox.
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The new version of FF runs quite a bit faster on my machine than the older versions. Fixed a few issues I had been having as well. Weird....
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Using FF4 right now with no problems...
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FF4 seemed to be initially faster, don't like they switched the "Open Link In New Tab" and "Open Link In New Browser" around. At times, it slows to a crawl with multiple tabs open and will freeze while something is loading, then start again.
As for the original problem... I don' get what you are doing? "...and when I double click on a thread response to open the default browser, I get this error message. " What are you double clicking on if the browser is not open?
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The problem is that when launching browsers other than IE, windows will give that error message if it takes longer then a couple seconds to launch the browser. There is a quick launch option for firefox, and if you are not using that then I would enable it. I'm at home on my mac right now, but if I were at work on my Windoze 7 machine I would be able to look up how to turn that on.
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I'm running both IE and FF. I stopped FF as the default and the error message is gone.
So, when I want to run FF, I have to open it manually. It has it's advantages but on some websites it is less efficient/handy than IE.
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MazdaSpeed3
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