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?
>  
The instructions are for win9x to winxp and everything inbetween.