Why does Firefox hate me?

[Kyle Raiden]

A while ago, Internet Explorer was messed up. None of the pics work. You all suggested that I downloaded Mozilla, which I did. It worked...for about three days. Then I started getting problems, and they've been getting progressively worse.

Right now, if I'm lucky, a page will load as it should. However, my luck seems to have run out. (I guess my Snugglemuffin was a big drain on that...). Most of the time, pages refuse to load, whether its my homepage, a bookmark, or a hyperlink. It just sits there. Sometimes, if I stop and re-click a few times, I'll get messages like "Connection refused" and "This document contains no data", and after that it'll work. The rest of the time, I have to close Mozilla down, and load up a page again which, if I'm trying to send off a post, involves a frustrating process of copying and pasting the post and the url, so I don't loose it all.

Anyone know what's up? Have I got a setting wrong or something? Or is the universe's sick idea of maintaining balance?

[Morgan Evanar]

I think your computer is probably screwed up. When was Windows installed?

[Kyle Raiden]

About three weeks ago. I tried upgrading to XP, but it didn't like me either.

And my computer was working fine (except for the IE thing) until Moz went on...maybe its more RAM-hungry than IE? That wouldn't be helping...

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Are you getting those errors on all websites you visit?

I've been getting "this document contains no data" errors when browsing 'Fans lately, but it works like a charm on other sites. I thought it was just an issue with the server.

[Darth007]

I get the same thing too, sometimes it says "no connection found" or something when i come here, and sometimes pages load rediculously slower then they usual would in the same conditions.

[Figrin D'an]

Empty your browser cache and get rid of all your cookies. Try to completely clean out everything associated with the browser, including extentions/plugins like Flash or Java.

If that doesn't work, try scanning for adware/spyware.

[Kyle Raiden]

Its sort of working...I hope. I guess I'll know in a little while if the problem is still there.

Thanks guys.

[imported_Firebird1]

It sounds like you got some kind of regestry error there!


You said XP didn't like you, were you trying to upgrade or do a clean install?

[Kyle Raiden]

Upgrade.

[Morgan Evanar]

That would be why. XP sometimes upgrades ok from 98 or ME, but most of the time it just half works. Clean install is the correct answer.

[Ryla Relvinian]

Hire a priest.

Holy water on the motherboard should do the trick. :)

[Lion El' Jonson]

Originally posted by Ryla Relvinian
Hire a priest.

Holy water on the motherboard should do the trick. :)

Yes. Listen to Ryla. That will work just as well as freezing your Hard Drive into an icecube to keep the temperature down. :lol