OcUK won't work in Firefox

doodah · 3 Sep 2009 at 21:57

Weird problem. Can someone confirm OcUK went down for a whole day a week or two back? Reason I ask is, the forums refuse to work in Firefox. It is acting to how it did a week or two ago (did wonder why no one had asked if the forum had gone down) Restarted Firefox but still won't load - remembered IE8 (haven't used for years) and it worked fine. Why would the forums suddenly not work in FF?

EDIT - Firefox 3.51 using W7 RC1

aaron333 · 3 Sep 2009 at 22:01

Tried "Firefox Safe mode"?

marc2003 · 3 Sep 2009 at 22:01

of course the forums work in firefox. can you imagine the outcry if they didn't?

the problem is most definitely your end. have you tried a new firefox profile?

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Starting_the_Profile_Manager

doodah · 3 Sep 2009 at 22:09

Crap cleaner seemed to do the job.

MarkW7 · 3 Sep 2009 at 23:10

Forums fine in FF, all i use. Good old CCleaner

doodah · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:03

Does anyone know why this would be happening? Several sites now won't load in FF but work fine in IE.

Sp00n · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:08

because you are using rc1?

what do you mean "it doesnt work" ?

MarkW7 · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:08

erm, it could be addon's causing a problem maybe 'no script' or similar - try running firefox safe mode and see if you are still getting the problem.

Start > All programs > Mozilla Firefox > Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)

jas72 · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:15

cool i also have the same problem since latest ff update addons removed/switched off didn't help. I can access google but from google nothing works. If I visit sites directly they work but google and all other search engines don't

I'll try Crap Cleaner

MarkW7 · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:22

Try CCleaner, a disk defrag, and an antivirus scan. If all else fails uninstall and then reinstall.

doodah · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:36

Sp00n said:
because you are using rc1?

what do you mean "it doesnt work" ?

Page won't load. As if there was not internet connection, I am using Noscript too.

MarkW7 · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:58

Have you tried safemode

Mattus · 4 Sep 2009 at 14:09

marc2003 said:
the problem is most definitely your end. have you tried a new firefox profile?

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Starting_the_Profile_Manager

Yep. New profile. Fixes 99% of Firefox problems.

V4NT0M · 4 Sep 2009 at 14:34

What AV are you using? One I used previously caused websites not to work in firefox.

doodah · 5 Sep 2009 at 21:47

Tried a new profile, still happening. I use NOD AV. It is random now e.g. OcUK will work but Facebook wont, BBC Sport will work but YouTube won't work. We do seem to be having some internet problems too - Virgin 8MB been very slow at times, however any website will still load in IE even if internet is been slow. About to try safemode.

MarkW7 · 5 Sep 2009 at 22:49

I thought virgins minimum was 10-20mb now on Broadband, safe mode work?

djinuk205 · 5 Sep 2009 at 22:53

mine works fine in firefox

Energize · 6 Sep 2009 at 00:23

I've been having a problem in firefox recently where some webpages are redirected back to the page I just nagivated from.

aaron333 · 6 Sep 2009 at 00:25

Energize said:
I've been having a problem in firefox recently where some webpages are redirected back to the page I just nagivated from.

Sign of malware. Run MalwareBytes and Super anti spyware. Do a scan using a AV too.

doodah · 6 Sep 2009 at 21:15

aaron333 said:
Sign of malware. Run MalwareBytes and Super anti spyware. Do a scan using a AV too.

Did a spybot sweep, found a couple of minor things and deleted them.

Silly question but how do you run it in safemode? Can't find the shortcut and tried making a shortcut...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox -safe-mode but didn't work