Re: Firefox won't start

Stan Goodman wrote:
> 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?
>  

Should be the same.  You mean you can't start FF at all, even if your 
click through the wrong java warning?

If you can convince it to start, you can reset the UA to the original, 
without the need tot edit prefs.js.

Lee