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Sane · Feb 26th, 2006, 2:52 PM

Everytime I access a page with a missing picture, a retarted dial-up option appears on FireFox, probably assuming I'm not connected to the internet.

As long as this dial-up box is up, I can not surf the internet with firefox. So I have to cancel it equal to as many missing images on the page. On some sites this means I have to click the small X five or six times every page.

I'm back to Internet Explorer again since this has gotten really out of hand, maybe you can help?

Arevos · Feb 26th, 2006, 4:25 PM

Have you tried removing your firefox user directory? Sometimes Firefox messes up its settings, and the best way to solve it is to shutdown firefox, move your current user settings to a backup directory, start firefox up and let it create some new, default settings, and then to copy over your bookmarks and cookies etc. from the backup and reconfigure the new firefox setup with the opens and extensions you want.

Jessehk · Feb 26th, 2006, 5:04 PM

I know, I know..this is unhelpful, and unsupportive. but...

Use Opera! http://www.opera.com :p

Pizentios · Feb 26th, 2006, 5:28 PM

i would check your internet connection settings. make sure to have it setup to never use dial up.

Sane · Feb 26th, 2006, 5:31 PM

I looked and could only find a profile folder. I tried deleting its contents and now firefox is broken. Oh well, it doesn't matter. IE is just as fast now that the cache seems to be working again.

.TD · Mar 1st, 2006, 2:54 PM

=/ what version were you using? How's about trying to instal it again.. anything but IE..or Opera :p

Indigno · Mar 2nd, 2006, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessehk

I know, I know..this is unhelpful, and unsupportive. but...

Use Opera! http://www.opera.com :p

Opera is great, but it doesn't support flash player 8 yet. I like Firefox better anyways. My suggestion is to just delete it and try again. Or try Avant browser (Not the greatest but it has Flash 8 support and tabbed browsing)

Arevos · Mar 2nd, 2006, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sane

I looked and could only find a profile folder. I tried deleting its contents and now firefox is broken. Oh well, it doesn't matter. IE is just as fast now that the cache seems to be working again.

Try opening up "C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data" in explorer and moving the "Mozilla" folder to "Mozilla.bak" (whilst Firefox is not running). Then try starting Firefox.

Sane · Mar 2nd, 2006, 3:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arevos

Try opening up "C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data" in explorer and moving the "Mozilla" folder to "Mozilla.bak" (whilst Firefox is not running). Then try starting Firefox.

Okay, I tried that (I had no clue an application data folder existed :eek: ), and as soon as I opened up Firefox the dial-up box appeared. Even though FireFox hadn't even tried to show a web page yet.

Then it asked me to configure my account (if I should import settings from IE), then it crashed.

.TD · Mar 2nd, 2006, 3:58 PM

Sure you are running/installing version 1.5.0.1? You could always try http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ dont import settings the just manually do it. Do u hav dial-up? Try to manually config it, not that hard.

Feb 26th, 2006, 2:52 PM	#1
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,824 Rep Power: 5	FireFox help? Everytime I access a page with a missing picture, a retarted dial-up option appears on FireFox, probably assuming I'm not connected to the internet. As long as this dial-up box is up, I can not surf the internet with firefox. So I have to cancel it equal to as many missing images on the page. On some sites this means I have to click the small X five or six times every page. I'm back to Internet Explorer again since this has gotten really out of hand, maybe you can help?

Feb 26th, 2006, 5:04 PM	#3
Jessehk The Oblivious One Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 639 Rep Power: 4	I know, I know..this is unhelpful, and unsupportive. but... Use Opera! http://www.opera.com :p __________________ Dr. Zoidberg: [ecstatic] I'm going to a movie... with FRIENDS!

Feb 26th, 2006, 5:28 PM	#4
Pizentios Programming Guru Join Date: May 2004 Location: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Posts: 2,023 Rep Power: 7	i would check your internet connection settings. make sure to have it setup to never use dial up. __________________ Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. Check out my Blog <---updated Nov 30 2007!

Mar 1st, 2006, 2:54 PM	#6
.TD Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: UK Posts: 36 Rep Power: 0	=/ what version were you using? How's about trying to instal it again.. anything but IE..or Opera :p __________________ Go away before I replace you with a very small shell script. -- Get FireFox!

Mar 2nd, 2006, 3:58 PM	#10
.TD Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: UK Posts: 36 Rep Power: 0	Sure you are running/installing version 1.5.0.1? You could always try http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ dont import settings the just manually do it. Do u hav dial-up? Try to manually config it, not that hard. __________________ Go away before I replace you with a very small shell script. -- Get FireFox!

Feb 26th, 2006, 4:25 PM	#2
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Have you tried removing your firefox user directory? Sometimes Firefox messes up its settings, and the best way to solve it is to shutdown firefox, move your current user settings to a backup directory, start firefox up and let it create some new, default settings, and then to copy over your bookmarks and cookies etc. from the backup and reconfigure the new firefox setup with the opens and extensions you want.

Feb 26th, 2006, 5:31 PM	#5
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,824 Rep Power: 5	I looked and could only find a profile folder. I tried deleting its contents and now firefox is broken. Oh well, it doesn't matter. IE is just as fast now that the cache seems to be working again.

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