Firefox Help!

MouseMat2004 · 5 Apr 2008 at 12:24

Been using Firefox for years and it's always been great. Got bored and thought, my profile must be a little buggered, since I've been using the same one for godknows how long, its gone through v1, v2 and now the betas of v3

So I completely remove Firefox, delete all my profiles, so I lost all my saved passwords, bookmarks etc

I reinstalled latest Firefox 2, but randomly it'll not load any web pages, but if I close Firefox and reload it, it'll be perfectly fine... until it does it again. It could be 5mins or a few hours.

It's a little annoying to say the least. Anyone got any ideas, except starting from fresh again and hoping for the best!

P.S. I have a few addons installed but only ones I've used before, only the usual Foxmarks, Adblock and Down them all.

tolien · 5 Apr 2008 at 14:05

You could've imported your bookmarks et al :eek:

What happens when they don't load?

MouseMat2004 · 5 Apr 2008 at 18:24

I did backup my bookmarks with Foxmarks

Simply just keeps trying to load, no movement from the load bar. No real error messages etc.

tolien · 5 Apr 2008 at 18:32

Usual story, try safe mode?
Is it the same with IE?

MouseMat2004 · 5 Apr 2008 at 19:07

Tried safe mode and it did it. Havent tried IE yet

MouseMat2004 · 5 Apr 2008 at 19:54

Doesnt appear to do it in IE, wifes laptop is working fine (On Firefox)

MouseMat2004 · 8 Apr 2008 at 07:07

Its still doing it. I backed up my profile with Mozback, removed Firefox through add-remove then deleted every entry I could find in my User settings. Reinstalled latest Firefox 2 and everything seemed ok, for a few days but it's come back. Whenever it does it, I get 'Looking up www.xxxxxxxxx.com..." down the bottom and it sits there, if I leave it long enough it'll just kick in and load up like normal, but soon as I try another link it'll freeze again but like before, if I close Firefox and re-load it, theres no problems.

Never had this before, any ideas?

tolien · 8 Apr 2008 at 09:25

Taking ages at the "looking up..." sounds like an issue with DNS, which was why I asked if it was the same with IE.

MouseMat2004 · 12 Apr 2008 at 16:22

Yeah I thought DNS but I'm not sure what I can do to fix it.

Anyway, its still doing it. Once again, removed, deleted all profile settings that I know of? and re-installed, worked ok for a few days and now its doing it again!!

I tried a portable version of Firefox from memory stick which worked perfectly for days!

Apart from reinstalling windows, got any ideas?

tolien · 12 Apr 2008 at 18:04

Try OpenDNS, or another set of DNS servers that will work?
If it worked with the Portable version that's a bit odd though :confused:

Only other thing I can think of is try setting network.dns.disableIPv6 to true.

MouseMat2004 · 12 Apr 2008 at 18:28

I'll try that and see how it goes. Yeah Portable version worked fine, IE7 worked fine, all other computers attached to my network work fine. Its frustrating when it does it.

Is there any kind of Firefox complete removal kit? I can only assume its a left over setting somewhere but I deleted the Firefox dir and all the Firefox dirs in User Settings, I didnt touch the registry though. Last time around I didnt use Mozbackup either.

MouseMat2004 · 13 Apr 2008 at 00:23

setting network.dns.disableIPv6 to true didnt work, its been doing it within a few mins tonight. I'm gonna have to use the Portable version from now on.

tolien · 13 Apr 2008 at 00:55

The uninstaller should remove everything possible - Firefox doesn't touch the registry except to set Windows settings (default browser, handler for .html etc.). Deleting the profile folder and the folder Firefox is installed into should clear it all.