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Title: FireFox 1.5.03refuses toiopen in Home page
Post by: MamaMoose on May 29, 2006, 12:22:58 AM

Whenever I open FF (1.5.03) now I first get a progress bar saying "Checking Configuration" followed by a page saying "Ther is a new version of FireFox". I have tried Preferences, and every option available and I cannot turn the damn thing off! If I close FF and then reboot it, the same thing happens.

I am running OS 10.4.6 with a dual 2 GHz G5. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

MamaMoose

Title: FireFox 1.5.03refuses toiopen in Home page
Post by: kbeartx on May 29, 2006, 01:06:19 AM

I don't use FF, so this is a guess, but I suspect corrupt or otherwise wonky prefs.....

 - KB

Title: FireFox 1.5.03refuses toiopen in Home page
Post by: antony on May 29, 2006, 01:49:25 AM

QUOTE(MamaMoose @ May 29 2006, 03:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Whenever I open FF (1.5.03) now I first get a progress bar saying "Checking Configuration" followed by a page saying "Ther is a new version of FireFox". I have tried Preferences, and every option available and I cannot turn the damn thing off! If I close FF and then reboot it, the same thing happens.

Have you tried following setting:

by removing the ticks from in the panel?

I am aware that many Mozilla browser users are university/college kids with an attitude of open-source is the only solution... many of them can't survive without the latest updates or patches they can get hold off.
I ranted this in my forum (link).

Otherwise, try creating a new Firefox user profile and see if that helps.

Title: FireFox 1.5.03refuses toiopen in Home page
Post by: MamaMoose on May 29, 2006, 06:19:57 AM

Thnks for the suggestions. I finally tried deleting the FireFox caches and that worked - so far!

MamaMoose