Firefox hints&tips thread

Post by **117** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:28 pm

650 errors found

Post by **fac51** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:58 pm

never heard of registry first aid, bet its nowhere near as good as reg mechanic :razz:

Post by **117** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:00 pm

nowhere near as good based on the fact that i didn't fork out 20bucks for it?

Post by **fac51** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:05 pm

nowhere as good based on the fact reg mechanic is fecking brilliant

Post by **mr mixin** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:08 pm

guru wrote:on a side note i spend a few hours on sundays doing maintenance on my pc such as reg clean, virus adware scans, defrag (perfect disk 7.0 is fecking excellent for defragging), use ashampoo win optimizer for crap removal etc etc and doing it always keep's my pc running nice and smooth.

And i do the occasional virus scan every month when i remember to do so and my PC runs fine

Post by **117** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:11 pm

mr mixin wrote:
guru wrote:on a side note i spend a few hours on sundays doing maintenance on my pc such as reg clean, virus adware scans, defrag (perfect disk 7.0 is fecking excellent for defragging), use ashampoo win optimizer for crap removal etc etc and doing it always keep's my pc running nice and smooth.

And i do the occasional virus scan every month when i remember to do so and my PC runs fine

ditto

meanwhile, back at the ranch.....

kev has uninstalled ff and removed the ff directory completely, run Registry First Aid, reinstalled ff and now images load properly

now time for a mammoth resetup of ff

Post by **fac51** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:13 pm

there are different levels of fine though, i use my pc for gaming more than anything so want it in tip top shape and not full of clutter and massively fragmented hard drives. im sure your pc wont be running as fast as it could. having a decent pc housekeeping program cannot be considered as a bad thing surely?

so complete uninstall and reg clean worked then, so there you go

Post by **fac51** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:08 pm

Back up Firefox bookmarks

Firefox stores your bookmarks in a file called 'bookmarks.html'. Where it keeps this depends on the operating system you're using - in a worst case scenario, you should be able to search for the file by name, find it, and take a copy to save in a different place - that's your backup done.

jobs a good un

MaThIbUs · Post by **MaThIbUs** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:31 pm

this ain't no firefox-only "trick" --- hell, it even works in IE --- but i didn't know of it 'til i accidentally discovered it:

press space to scroll down

that's it.

Post by **fac51** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:40 pm

never knew that

Post by **fac51** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:22 am

117 wrote:
Profile Folder

Firefox stores your user data in one of the following locations:

Windows 2000, XP Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

source

sweet as, backed up my bm's as above and replaced the files on my fresh install and it worked sound as a pound

Post by **117** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:27 am

anyone know how to change popup settings for a particular site, after you allowed popups? I allowed popups on a site i didnt mean to and now i cant change it back

Post by **fac51** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:52 am

tools/options/web features then hit allowed sites

Post by **117** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:29 pm

cheers ed

just checked my allowed list, and there's a site listed as allowed popups with a url of vod.vs3.com ??? i've been on the site and all it is is the word rob written in the corner :?:

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:28 pm

Anyone find that FF becomes really unstable when Tabbrowser Extensions are installed?