Firefox

[fuzzygruf]

So I've been giving Firefox a try this morning for a new browsing experience. It crapped out at Yodlee.com. That wasn't as bad a sfgate.com. I clicked on "storm tracker" for Hurricane Frances, and my windows go crazy. Six windows open, and they open faster than I can close them. Using cntl+alt+delete to end the program doesn't work. I had to move faster than gopher head bopping to get rid of 'em all.

So is there some secret to using Firefox to view a site like http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HURRICANE?SITE=AP?

Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Odd -- I get no unusual behavior from that (overly busy) page at all. Have you set your default browser to Firefox? In the Firfox options window, the box saying check default shoudl be checked, while the same box in IE options should be unchecked.

There's also a good chance you still have some adware which is observing what you've browsed to and opens side window ads. While Firefox won't allow such adware to install itself, it can't stop independent adware already installed from acting up.

It took me many days to get rid of the last pieces of adware, and it wouldn't surprise me if you still had some -- they hide in DLLs and rebuild themselves each time you start up. I've set Ad-Aware to run on startup, which intercepts them, and I *think* I've gotten rid of the last bad DLL.... [crossing fingers]

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

...and there are a few sites, notably financial ones, which have written IE-dependent code for security (and lazniness) reasons, which might be the problem with Yodlee. Thus you keep IE around for those few spots.

[rampagebear.livejournal.com]

That website was working fine on my computer running Firefox. In addition to Ad-Aware like dr_scott does I also run Spybot Search and Destroy to catch some of the stuff Ad-Aware doesn't.

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

I know that Firefox says it's compatible with Windows 98 (which I recall you mentioning as being your operating system), but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that this was the culprit responsible for the problem. It's especially ironic (and frustrating) because Firefox has a popup blocker.

I'm running Firefox 0.9.3 on XP and had no troubles with the sites you listed.

[dacubsf.livejournal.com]

Hmmm..... i've never had any problems with Firefox or any other browsers crapping out on me. I use IE, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla to preview my webpages as i'm designing them to make sure how they look in each browser. I've never had a problem

As for the pop ups on SFGate. yeah I really hate those things. They totally piss me off. It's gotten now where I won't get on any of the newspaper or TV news sites. they're all loaded with pop ups that just bombard you out of nowhere. They're very annoying. I've gotten now to where I'll send a nasty email back to them and tell them I won't visit their site anymore because of those. I think those kind of popups should be illegal

[dacubsf.livejournal.com]

actually I just went into Firefox to view the link you posted. I have no problems. It view totally fine. Hmmmmm.... try un-installing Firefox and then re-instlaling it again. Maybe you didn't get a good download on it when it installed