Hello,

I'm running mac osx 10.4.4 on my new ibook with 1gb of ram..and plenty
of disk space.....I just noticed yesterday evening that when I attempt
to get into my firefox preferences panel..firefox hangs.....I get the
spinning ball of death....:(

.....this will also happen if I attempt to download anything off of the
net with firefox....:(

....safari continues to work....thankfully.....

....I have checked by disk's security settings using the on-board mac
osx utilities.....and everything seems to be fine......:(

....I have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox several times....same
problem....I have even deleted my firefox plist file......I also
removed the cache directory from spotlight.....:(

.....is anyone experiencing anything close to this....???

.....does anyone know how to correct this....????

TIA...

On 2006-02-14 06:21:11 -0500, lynndeman <demanl@mac.com> said:

> Hello,
>
> I'm running mac osx 10.4.4 on my new ibook with 1gb of ram..and plenty
> of disk space.....I just noticed yesterday evening that when I attempt
> to get into my firefox preferences panel..firefox hangs.....I get the
> spinning ball of death....:(
>
> ....this will also happen if I attempt to download anything off of the
> net with firefox....:(
>
> ...safari continues to work....thankfully.....
>
> ...I have checked by disk's security settings using the on-board mac
> osx utilities.....and everything seems to be fine......:(
>
> ...I have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox several times....same
> problem....I have even deleted my firefox plist file......I also
> removed the cache directory from spotlight.....:(
>
> ....is anyone experiencing anything close to this....???
>
> ....does anyone know how to correct this....????
>
> TIA...

Well...I found a directory /application support/firefox.......which
looked it contained profiles and plugin info plus favorites.....so I
blew this directory away....and everything is fine....

..... I did have a web developer plugin installed.......this may have
been causing my problem....but I'm up and running again....and NOT
installing the web developer plugin.....:)

On 14-02-2006 12:28 CET, lynndeman composed this enchanting statement:
> On 2006-02-14 06:21:11 -0500, lynndeman <demanl@mac.com> said:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running mac osx 10.4.4 on my new ibook with 1gb of ram..and
>> plenty of disk space.....I just noticed yesterday evening that when I
>> attempt to get into my firefox preferences panel..firefox hangs.....I
>> get the spinning ball of death....:(
>>
>> ....this will also happen if I attempt to download anything off of
>> the net with firefox....:(
>>
>> ...safari continues to work....thankfully.....
>>
>> ...I have checked by disk's security settings using the on-board mac
>> osx utilities.....and everything seems to be fine......:(
>>
>> ...I have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox several times....same
>> problem....I have even deleted my firefox plist file......I also
>> removed the cache directory from spotlight.....:(
>>
>> ....is anyone experiencing anything close to this....???
>>
>> ....does anyone know how to correct this....????
>>
>> TIA...
>
> Well...I found a directory /application support/firefox.......which
> looked it contained profiles and plugin info plus favorites.....so I
> blew this directory away....and everything is fine....
>
> .... I did have a web developer plugin installed.......this may have
> been causing my problem....but I'm up and running again....and NOT
> installing the web developer plugin.....:)
>
You must have fouled up the running profile somehow, or you did have
problems with one of your extensions or themes. By removing the
profiles, I assume that's what you did, Firefox copied its default
profile from the application package, at first start.

--
Kind regards,

Melchert

MacOS 10.3.9/Firefox 1.5/Thunderbird 1.5

lynndeman wrote:
> On 2006-02-14 06:21:11 -0500, lynndeman <demanl@mac.com> said:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running mac osx 10.4.4 on my new ibook with 1gb of ram..and plenty
>> of disk space.....I just noticed yesterday evening that when I attempt
>> to get into my firefox preferences panel..firefox hangs.....I get the
>> spinning ball of death....:(
>>
>> ....this will also happen if I attempt to download anything off of the
>> net with firefox....:(
>>
>> ...safari continues to work....thankfully.....
>>
>> ...I have checked by disk's security settings using the on-board mac
>> osx utilities.....and everything seems to be fine......:(
>>
>> ...I have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox several times....same
>> problem....I have even deleted my firefox plist file......I also
>> removed the cache directory from spotlight.....:(
>>
>> ....is anyone experiencing anything close to this....???
>>
>> ....does anyone know how to correct this....????
>>
>> TIA...
>
> Well...I found a directory /application support/firefox.......which
> looked it contained profiles and plugin info plus favorites.....so I
> blew this directory away....and everything is fine....
>
> .... I did have a web developer plugin installed.......this may have
> been causing my problem....but I'm up and running again....and NOT
> installing the web developer plugin.....:)
>

Web Developer Toolbar is an extension, not a plugin. For what its
worth, I use it all the time, and have had no issues with it.

Lee

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