Firefox

[bigboy99]

I'm running the latest version, but it still continues to crash. This is the only app that does so.

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G4 Powerbook OS X 10.4.11

 

[EricNau]

If Firefox isn't working out for you, have you tried Safari?

 

[clevin]

try a new profile for firefox

 

[bigboy99]

I've tried Safari 3, but prefer FF. I'm not sure how to go about trying a new profile. I went to the link in your post, but it didn't have anything specific about that topic.

 

[clevin]

I've tried Safari 3, but prefer FF. I'm not sure how to go about trying a new profile. I went to the link in your post, but it didn't have anything specific about that topic.

These are I posted before. Helpfully it will solve your problem. (I think new profile generally can solve 99% of the problem of firefox.

You do need to reinstall extensions and themes afterwards.

new profile, firefox will create a folder to save all the caches, sessions, extensions, themes, cookies, passwords, bookmarks, etc. that folder is called profile. check www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile for its location.

you can just rename the folder "firefox" to something else (with fx closed), next time firefox starts, it will create a new one automatically. if this turns out helpful, you can just delete the old profile folder (you just renamed).

to save your bookmarks and passwords, go into your profile, copy out the files

bookmarks.html is your bookmark
signons2.txt and key3.db are your passwords (signons is password, key3 is the decrypter to decipher the signons.txt which is encrypted)

 

[Fearless Leader]

firefox finally drove me crazy. Went to safari (well webkit) and haven't looked back.

 

[XianPalin]

One thing I can't stand about Safari is the command+enter functionality. In firefox or internet explorer, if you hit command+enter (well, control+enter on a windows box in IE) after you've typed "google" into the address bar, it prefixes it with www. and puts .com on the end.

Safari, on the other hand, opens up a new background tab and searches for "google" or something. A decent amount of the time you will get the site you wanted on the new tab, but not always (I think). Plus, you're on a blank tab, and the content you want is on a separate tab.

So firefox, type in google, hit command enter, you get www.google.com on the current tab.

In Safari, type in google, hit command enter, the tab you are on is blank (if you started with a blank tab), and google is open on the next tab.

Drives me crazy.

 

[bigboy99]

It was fairly easy to launch a new profile. I exported my bookmarks to Safari, and then imported them back into Firefox. So far, no problems.

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