Re: Firefox can't start -- thinks it's Internet Exporer

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:13 UTC, Roland <[email protected]> opined:

> On 23-1-2005 16:44, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > I have Firefox v1.0 on Win2k/SP3. Among other extensions, it has UserAgent 
> > Switcher, which is an indispensible weapon in dealing with websites which 
> > demand a browser that claims to be Internet Explorer.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, after a session with such a website, I shut down the browser 
> > while it was still spoofing IE. (Evidently, the checkbox that would return 
> > to the default user agent had been deselected inadvertently.)
> > 
> > Now Firefox won't start. Instead, I got an announcement telling me that I 
> > should not be using Netscape Java plugins with a Microsoft browser. That 
> > happened once only; subsequent attempts to start Firefox produced a little 
> > HD activity, but nothing more, not even the announcement. I can't open FF to
> > fix the user agent; I am in Catch-22.
> > 
> > The question is: How can I change the user agent without opening the 
> > browser? Alternatively, how can I override whatever it is that is preventing
> > the browser from opening, so that I can fix the user agent? If the switch is
> > in some file that I can remove termporarily, I would like to know which it 
> > is.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance...
> > 
> It's a known issue (<http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html>):
> <quote>
> Do not use Java with a spoofed useragent, as this may cause crashes (Bug 
> 83376 - a JRE issue).
> </quote>
> 
> Bug 83376:
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83376>
> 
> To resolve follow this (it's an attachment to bug 83376):
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=167225>

Easy enough to do.

Many thanks... 

-- 
Stan Goodman

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