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[Serious] Need some help please

»www.oldversion.com/download-Mozi···ora.html

reply to jaberi
It's been so long since I ran Windows I can't remember exactly where you find it, but somewhere there's a system directory for Firfefox with all of your chrome plugins and user settings. On Linux it's ~./mozilla.

Anyway, rename the directory to something Firefox won't recognize and run firefox and it will reinitialize with a new directory. See if that solves the problem or not. If it does, delete the renamed directory and restore your bookmarks from a backup. You'll also have to reset all your preferences and cookies and addons manually as well.

If it still crashes after that, you can download an old version from this link.

»www.oldversion.com/Mozilla-Firefox.html

Let us know what works for ya.

reply to jaberi
Just ftp into ftp.mozilla.org, you'll find all the versions there

thanks everyone! what a pain in the butt that was...the new update kept crashing...
why is internet explorer so slow to open up, i like firefox except today...is there even a better browser than firefox?

reply to elwoodblues
i had no choice again it kept crashing on me....now i can't get my tool bar back with all my bookmarks....clicking everywhere and nothing happening....help

This should help you out:
»kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

reply to jaberi

reply to jaberi
I tried to explain what you needed to do. Now you should have the mods move this thread to the »Mozilla Software forum.

reply to jaberi
So it wasn't just me. I uninstalled FF and went back to IE for now.

reply to jaberi
»ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

reply to jaberi
I switched to Chrome almost 3 years ago now.

reply to jaberi
PaleMoon is a browser based on Firefox, but more efficient and optimized.
»www.palemoon.org/

Also, they majorly update when needed based on major FF changes, but do NOT update every 3 1/2 days like Firefox seems to now.

FF extensions do work with PaleMoon.

I use them as my primary browser.

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Having said that, Firefox itself is getting fatter and fatter, and PaleMoon (even though it is finely tuned and optimized) can't escape that it relies on much Firefox code.

Because of that, I find myself using Google Chrome more.

I hate like hell to say that, but it seems more usable these days....

reply to Rob

reply to PX Eliezer
Firefox is getting fatter and fatter, I started using it back in the Firebird days of .5, and it screamed.

Now it's just as bloated as Netscape became.

Reminds me of one of the [Robocop] movies, where they loaded him with so much extra programming that he had to go to a power station to short out his own circuits....

....so he could become efficient again.

Regrettably, this is the destiny of all software out there. There's such a rush to add features so that a product can occupy the most bullet points in product comparison charts that the software naturally progresses to bloatware status.

What's really sad is that a lot of the bloatware could have been avoided if the development teams actually knew how to develop compact and efficient programs. Unfortunately, most programmers are so obsessed with using every "wow" feature of their development language, they don't even stop to think what kind of impact that will have on the final product and to the user experience.

I've encountered this firsthand. Very ugly how clueless most programmers can be -- if you can even call them programmers.
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reply to lugnut
yes thank you but that doesn't work..

reply to elwoodblues