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

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...
> 

Stan,
I have mentioned MANY times here that if you use the user agent 
switcher, you must be careful to restore the correct user agent or 
things can get ugly.  I believe you can change it back in the prefs.js 
file.