Firefox is foxing me... (fixed)
Thursday, March 12, 2009 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: Personal Computing
For the last couple of days, Firefox 3.0.7 (on XP) has not been remembering any of my login details for any site. It was working ok before.
Before I try an uninstall/reinstall does anyone have any ideas?
Was it the last Windows update? Hmmm...
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Reply #43 Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:04 AM
yeah.....and it's really annoying.... 
Reply #45 Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:12 AM
Yeah, I've heard logging onto the Playboy site consistently breaks it.... wonder if that's payback cos non of the MS bigwigs ever get invited to Hef's parties at the Playboy mansion. 
Reply #46 Sunday, March 15, 2009 1:42 PM
[sarcasm]don't be rediculous... its only CHILDREN (specifically, other's) that can't watch smut... Smut must be decried as the evil that it is... while discreetly enjoyed[/sarcasm]
Reply #47 Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:27 PM
I personally (and every other PC in my home) have never had one single issue with any of the IE versions ever.
Guess it's what people do with their browsers that might cause them to break.....
As far as windows updates go....
Every PC in my home gets all windows updates forced down it's throat! Not that that's a bad thing though........aside from having to replace/upgrade hardware now and then none of the PC's in our home have had any software issues whatsoever.
Sometimes my kids (teens) would like to run third-party browsers etc. and aren't too happy when I don't OK them........the kids are sure grateful however for having PC's that always work!
It's never my kids who are holding up "gaming nights" among their friends. Their friends are always having one issue or another preventing them from playing games. My kids might hate having all the windows updates and using IE but they love never having problems more than not having FF......so my "draconian methods" are appreciated! hehe 
Reply #48 Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:43 PM
The content of my browsing in IE was never any different than my browsing in FF, although it was extreme multitasking. Around 600 windows, IE would crash, and take Explorer with it. Not having a restore function hurt, too. This was IE6, if memory serves.
If FF holds up a gaming night, you're doing something wrong.
IE is also still so <censored> slow (IME) in comparison to...even an IE-based third-party browser. And it doesn't help that it calls and loads a function from a DLL when you hit the stop button...it should do what it says it does and stop.
Reply #49 Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:10 PM
sometimes windows update breaks something, but overall its a good thing, I enable it on any computer I manage, its easier to fix then handle all the viruses it accrues from KNOWN security holes.
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Reply #41 Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:43 AM
Nah, that can't be it.
Yup, that's it orright... and an attempt to get users to abandon FF for IE, they just didn't count on it breaking IE as well.