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My Firefox has been acting up lately. I figured it was the same problem as I had before, so I followed BugMuldoon's procedure for nuking Firefox and tried reinstalling it.
No dice. Even if I upgrade to Firefox 2, it opens but can't access any webpages- including the home page.
IE works, obviously, but Firefox is dead as a doornail. Any ideas?
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What happens exactly? Does it try to access the page, grind for a while, then tell you it can't load it? Does it tell you immediately it can't load it? Does it grind forever and never go anywhere?
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It says immediately that it can't load the page, and gives the usual "Problem loading page- Unable to connect" script. It's not an issue with any specific site, just Firefox is stuck.
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I've tried to do a System Restore, and it's done precisely nothing. My next thought is to copy the Program Files folder off my laptop and paste it in, as Mozilla works there.
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Have a look at your firewall and see if FF is allowed.
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I got it to work, by copying the Program Files and App Data Mozilla folders off my laptop. Think I even figured out the problem- it loaded 1.5.09, and the problem recurred. Repeated the above, and it's cured. I think I'll try 2.0.
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I had the same problem when I installed FF2.
It was my firewall, Zone Alarms (free version) which was blocking Firefox.
This page has a lot of info regarding Firefox and firewalls.
In the end I had to do the following
* Shut down ZoneAlarm (make sure you actually shut it down by right clickng the ZA icon in the system tray and selecting "shutdown ZoneAlarm). * Open the folder C:\Windows\Internet Logs (or C:\WinNT\Internet Logs if you're running Windows NT or 2000). * Delete the file IAMDB.RDB * If the file BACKUP.RDB exists delete that file as well * Restart your computer * Start ZoneAlarm (the file IAMDB.RDB will automatically be recreated)
Note that most of ZoneAlarms configuration settings will return to default so you may want to make a note of your current settings.
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