withing Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I *think* that the latest and greatest Firefox is not playing well with my computer because since it updated itself, my computer has been running *very* slow and taking forever to shut down and even turn on. I ran a virus check, I ran Spybot, and CCleaner; I even did a check disk. Everything checks clean. I even defragged my C: drive (it needed it). I set the OS back a week and a half - to a couple of days before the update and everything went back to normal. I stayed off the internet for a day and turned the computer on and off to see if it shut down normally and it did. But, of course, as soon as I opened Firefox again it updated itself and the problems started anew. IE freezes every time I use it. I'm using Chrome right now because a friend of mine raved about it, and it seems to do alright, but a lot of things won't run in Chrome (like my stumbleupon toolbar - but I can live without that I guess). Anyone else have any suggestions? Or any other theories as to what might not be playing well with my Windows XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I don't know how you do it in windows, but try deleting your firefox profile folder and starting over. If that doesn't fix it, the problem isn't with firefox. Backup your bookmarks first. Also try Opera: http://www.opera.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withing Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 I don't know how you do it in windows, but try deleting your firefox profile folder and starting over. If that doesn't fix it, the problem isn't with firefox. Backup your bookmarks first. Also try Opera: [link=http://www.opera.com/"'>http://www.opera.com/" target="_blank]http://www.opera.com/[/link] profile folder? Do you mean uninstall and reinstall firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grousemouse Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 you could set firefox to not update itself. to do this go to Tools>Options>Advanced>Updates and make sure 'Firefox' is not ticked in the 'Automatically check for updates to:' section. the only way i know how to delete your firefox profile is to go to your firefox 'Profiles' directory, select your profile and delete it. mine is under C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Application data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. it will have some weird name like tikgblsgn.default. good luck, grouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I don't know how you do it in windows, but try deleting your firefox profile folder and starting over. If that doesn't fix it, the problem isn't with firefox. Backup your bookmarks first. Also try Opera: [link=http://www.opera.com/"'>http://www.opera.com/" target="_blank]http://www.opera.com/[/link] profile folder? Do you mean uninstall and reinstall firefox? No, if you do that it will keep the same profile folder most likely. Go were grouse said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anelize Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I run Chrome on Vista, and I like it. The occasional website doesn't render properly, but I can deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isis Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I use chrome on windows XP and safari or firefox on macOSX. I havent had any problems running firefox on my windows though. hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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