Firefox is being problematic

**Mr. Mulder** · 10-13-2005, 12:01 PM

Two main problems really, one is that it has epileptic fits with flash content like on the gamespot website – I followed the steps of disabling Obj-tabs in Adblock and that didn’t do anything, I didn’t even have Adblock to begin with and only downloaded it to disable those tabs. I also went into the Quicktime settings and made sure it wasn’t selected for browsing. Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox hasn’t helped either

The other problem happens at random, all of a sudden everything I click on opens in a new tab and the wheel button on my mouse goes from scrolling up and down to enlarging/minimizing text – it’s really annoying and shutting down/restarting Firefox doesn’t help, I have to restart the computer completely

*and also, the wysiwyg posting box takes awhile to load

**Vargas** · 10-13-2005, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox hasn’t helped either

did you remember to delete your firefox profiles (backing up your bookmarks of course) before re-installing?

**GepperRankins** · 10-13-2005, 12:39 PM

i had a mobo that would act like i was pressing the ctrl key. the only way around this was to buy a USB keyboard so i didn't have to use the ps2 port.

doesn't the gamespot site fix itself once it's finished loading?

**Mr. Mulder** · 10-13-2005, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by GepperRankins

doesn't the gamespot site fix itself once it's finished loading?

yeah but it shouldn't be gay in the first place, imo

Originally Posted by vargas

did you remember to delete your firefox profiles (backing up your bookmarks of course) before re-installing?

yup

**orcutt989** · 10-13-2005, 02:31 PM

Firefox, problematic? Nooooo

**DarthInsinuate** · 10-13-2005, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

Two main problems really, one is that it has epileptic fits with flash content like on the gamespot website – I followed the steps of disabling Obj-tabs in Adblock and that didn’t do anything, I didn’t even have Adblock to begin with and only downloaded it to disable those tabs. I also went into the Quicktime settings and made sure it wasn’t selected for browsing. Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox hasn’t helped either

The other problem happens at random, all of a sudden everything I click on opens in a new tab and the wheel button on my mouse goes from scrolling up and down to enlarging/minimizing text – it’s really annoying and shutting down/restarting Firefox doesn’t help, I have to restart the computer completely

*and also, the wysiwyg posting box takes awhile to load

my Firefox has none of those problems

, it just crashes all the time

**Busyman** · 10-13-2005, 04:37 PM

WTH are the folks on here with all the IE problems ffs?

**peat moss** · 10-14-2005, 12:31 AM

I don't know guys not many guides on here how to tweak, speed up (its fucking slow ) or change skins ect. for IE either for that matter , must be that good...........

I like the other browsers for farting around with and changing things , my wife uses IE tho .

**Mr. Mulder** · 10-14-2005, 09:48 AM

I've been using FF and an old version of Opera side by side for awhile now, think I'll be using Opera more from now on

Originally Posted by dave

i had a mobo that would act like i was pressing the ctrl key. the only way around this was to buy a USB keyboard so i didn't have to use the ps2 port.

dave was right, it must have been my ghey mobo, none of the pci/agp ports work and now this

just took the ps2 extension of me keyboard and started using it wiv usb