Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Had addon(s) problems arise in Firefox 3.6 few days ago
Supposedly, there is a software conflict between Google Toolbar and Personas 1.6 in Firefox, when an update for one of them came out a few days ago.
After reading some technical support pages for a different addon which was the one exposing symptoms but apparently as an innocent bystander, I decided to switch to my default Theme in Personnas and then disable: Google Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar, Personnas - and uninstall that other addon.
Note that since at least one of the addons was malfunctioning very badly and interfering with lots of things, including the ability to display the Addon manager window (!) I had to start up Firefox in "safe" mode. On the Macintosh, this is easy: simply hold down the Option key on your keyboard while launching Firefox. I did not check any buttons on the safe mode dialog that appeared when I did this; just clicked the button to tell it to start up in safe mode.
This procedure cleared up the problem. I was pretty concerned about this since Firefox is by far the web browser I use the most, most of the time.
I was very much relieved to discover this was simply a problem with some addons. Firefox itself was not the problem, nor is there apparent permanent damage to my Firefox install!
Problem solved.
After reading some technical support pages for a different addon which was the one exposing symptoms but apparently as an innocent bystander, I decided to switch to my default Theme in Personnas and then disable: Google Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar, Personnas - and uninstall that other addon.
Note that since at least one of the addons was malfunctioning very badly and interfering with lots of things, including the ability to display the Addon manager window (!) I had to start up Firefox in "safe" mode. On the Macintosh, this is easy: simply hold down the Option key on your keyboard while launching Firefox. I did not check any buttons on the safe mode dialog that appeared when I did this; just clicked the button to tell it to start up in safe mode.
This procedure cleared up the problem. I was pretty concerned about this since Firefox is by far the web browser I use the most, most of the time.
I was very much relieved to discover this was simply a problem with some addons. Firefox itself was not the problem, nor is there apparent permanent damage to my Firefox install!
Problem solved.
Labels: extension, firefox, troubleshooting
Hopefully, someday I will get this page to validate!
