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]