Re: Error since upgrading to Firefox 1.01

mark (sixstringtheoryDOTcom) wrote:
> I just performed the upgrade to Firefox 1.01 yesterday and have had a 
> couple of serious problems since.
> 
> First, a lot of times when I try to execute the firefox 1.01 program it 
> won't run. It appears as a process in my windows XP Home Task Manager, 
> but it won't run. I try it again and all it does is add another process 
> but still does nothing other than the mouse cusrsor momentarily (ie, 
> about 4 seconds) switches to the loading cursor but then stops and 
> nothing happens. The only way to get Firefox to start is to go into Task 
> Manager and stop the firefox.exe processes and then try again and only 
> then does it work. This happens still after numerous re-boots. I also 
> probably made the mistake of upgrading from 1.0 to 1.01 via the browser 
> functionality, but then after I started having this issue I uninstalled 
> 1.01 via the add/remove programs and reinstalled from the executable 
> downloaded from mozilla and it still does it.
> 
> Second - whenever I do not have firefox already running, and I open up 
> an email in Thunderbird with links in it and click on one of them, i get 
> a pop-up error box telling me the following:
> 
> "The program must close to allow a previous installation attempt to 
> complete. Please restart."
> 
> I've of course tried restarting and shutting down my PC, etc. I haven't 
> uninstalled/reinstaled Thunderbird and don't think I should have to, right?
> 
> Thunderbird is my default browser.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

Oops. Just fiddled around some more with this and it appears to be fixed 
now. Turns out that, when I went into the Options and clicked on the 
'check to see if firefox is default browser' button, it was NOT the 
default browser anymore. Hmmmm...I wonder what was! : ) So I set it back 
to default and now everything appears to be working. Hopefully atleast 
others may see this issue/resolution and be saved some hassle.

mark
www.sixstringtheory.com