Firefox playing up

unwashed potato! · 22 May 2006 at 22:30

I changed some settings today on firefox and didnt really know what i was dong and now

it has screwed up firefox. I think i went to tools>options, then changed something there, remeber changing what it should delete, and keep etc, i told it not to keep history, and then like clear cache, cookies, saved form entries etc and now i get a problem wit most web pages.

It happens on pages such as ebay when i go to the website i dont get any images at all, and the page is like it goes to the defualt messege/name when an image cant be downloaded, and then if i try going to anotyher website it tries to get me to download a .dll file wihch i tried but then it wants to know what to open it with and i have no clue, select from web and get nothing and then i choose and it tried photoshop. It also happens on hotmail.com when trying to go to my inbox and it tries some differnt .dll file and if i click to cancel it comes up like 5/6 times.

anyone know what i have done and how to fix it.

Indy500 · 22 May 2006 at 22:31

Sounds like you disabled images and possibly java\flash as well.

unwashed potato! · 22 May 2006 at 22:44

sr4470 said:
Sounds like you disabled images and possibly java\flash as well.

well when i go to settings it says that java sciprt enabled and java enabled, and load images. they are all ticked so i miagine they are all enabled.

Indy500 · 22 May 2006 at 23:26

addy_010 said:
well when i go to settings it says that java sciprt enabled and java enabled, and load images. they are all ticked so i miagine they are all enabled.

Suppose you could remove and reinstall, and be more careful when changing settings

oldhat · 23 May 2006 at 13:00

what a coincidence, same things happened to me yesterday, damn annoying i tell you....
I caused it by using tune up utilities i think, it cleared history, temp files and cookies etc.
But after an hour or 2 of fiddling and system restoring still no luck but all of a sudden it just fixed it self somehow. It would work in sites like ebay, google, yahoo....

let me know if you find the problem

no_1_dave · 23 May 2006 at 17:35

When mine did that I found it was also happening in IE.
Turned out my Belkin Router was to blame, turned belkins firewall off & bam, I was able to see pics again. Kind of strange that it didnt happen for 2 years then suddenly it broke. Anyway, fixed it for good by getting a Netgear

mrbeanyuk · 23 May 2006 at 17:44

I can sympathise there buddy! that happened to me yesterday! same thing too - using tune-up.

the only wierd thing that has not fixed is MSN Messenger smileys dont show still!

unwashed potato! · 23 May 2006 at 21:55

well it seems to have worked again for no apparent reason.

What id like to know now though is:
1. How do i get the tabs bar to be there always, even when the is only 1 tab open?
2. How do i get the ebay.co.uk site to keep my freaking signed in? i i sign in, tick the keep me signed in box yet it never keeps me for more then one or 2 pages. I have got firefox to remember my password but thats it. thanks everyone

Indy500 · 23 May 2006 at 21:57

Save form information?

The other option is in tools->options->tabs then untick "hide tab bar when only 1 tab is open"

This is assuming you're using 1.5 or later.

unwashed potato! · 23 May 2006 at 22:32

sr4470 said:
Save form information?

The other option is in tools->options->tabs then untick "hide tab bar when only 1 tab is open"

This is assuming you're using 1.5 or later.

thanks, got the tabthing back and hope ebay now works. thanks again