Yeah, so I managed to crash 'fox 3.mumblemumble, and suddenly it no longer opens new browser windows when I start it again. Upgrading to 10.whatever doesn't help either... Seriously, WTF? Norton and Malwarebited can't find anything screwy on my system, and I killed the "restore last session" dialogue in favor of starting over fresh, but no joy. Jammit, I NEED at least three browser windows to organise the tabs I keep open all the time!
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
did you try temporarily moving your profile folder?
it's location differs based on XP:
Documents and Settings\Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles
or win 7:
Users\AppDataRoamingMozillaFirefoxProfiles
buried within your profile folder is a [some alphanumeric string].default folder containing all your bookmarks, preferences, and other settings. So don't delete the contents, just relocate them somewhere else.
After you move the profile folder, firefox should create a fresh (blank slate) profile for you. If that still gives you problems, I'm not sure what is wrong.
But if it does work you can *copy* components of the problem profile into the new one untill you either:
a) get all the settings you care about back, or
b) find the part of the profile is that is broken.
hope this helps.
edit: fixed the html-like elements yuku swallowed
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
Ah, it turns out rolling back the Mozilla Archive Format plugin to the second-most-recent fixed it. Why this might be, I have NO idea. Thanks Sweno!
- CD
ETA: It appears to be a conflict with "XUL Cache" whatever that is. Disabling that instead doesn't seem to break anything else, at least...
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
If you're spawning huge numbers of tabs, you can (at least with 10) further organize them into "tab groups," which are kinda like meta-tabs. It's basically having window-tabs that store all your page tabs. Press the tab group button at the far right of the tab bar and you can create an empty group with a double click, or drag off individual tabs into new/existing groups.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Far right... Huh. That's a new feature I hadn't noticed yet, what with the seven-version-number update and all. And yeah, I do tend to spawn massive numbers of tabs, though mostly in my fanfic window(s). The last time I checked before the crash I had three of those, and the "small" one had just over a hundred tabs open. Why? Wel, I see an interesting looking reccomendation, but want to give it a bit of a read before bookmarking or saving it off - not quite right now though, I'm in the middle of something else right now. I'll read it in a bit... and so on. Curiosity plus procrastination equals 6-7 hundred Mb worth of allocated memory for pages sitting open from a years or more ago when I look at Firefox's stats in the Task Manager.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I think the best advice for this is to close all your tabs and windows. Don't save them. If it's not interesting enough to bookmark for later, and not important enough to look at right now, trust your history to keep the link stored until later. If you haven't looked at it in a year from now, it's not worth it.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Yeah, that's why I didn't get in a fluff about killing them all as a first stab at the problem, it's just sort of something that accumulates, like fallen leaves in a rain gutter.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
How about something simpler? Make a 'To read later' folder on your bookmarks and just stuff them all in there. Pretty much what I do with webcomics and fics with big archives I gotta catch up on.
I keep a folder called "weeklies" in my bookmark toolbar. Every so often I just hit 'bookmark all' and make a dated subfolder there.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make
anything explode.