Re: Firefox won't start

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:31:33 UTC, gwtc 
<[email protected]> opined:
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> 
> > In Firefox v1.0.7 (Win2k), I apparently closed the browser previously 
> > while the User Agent was set to spoof as Internet Explorer, with the 
> > result that I can't start the browser anymore -- It tells me that I 
> > should use only Navigator plugins in this browser.
> >  
> > Please tell me how to go about fixing this.
> >  
> Locate your profile: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#profile
> 
> But first, if you're using windows, you must unhide window files, so 
> see this on how to do that: 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/hiddenfiles.mspx
> 
> Now, with FF closed locate the file prefs.js in your profile.  Make a 
> copy of it and put it somewhere safe just incase you do something 
> wrong.  Now, open the original file up using a text based editor (such 
> as WordPad), and locate all the lines that have useragent in it and 
> delete them.  When you restart FF, they should be rebuilt.
 
The instructions seem specific to WinXP, while what I have here is 
Win2k, as I said. Can you modify them?
 
-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel