My firefox doesnt work? What the heck?

Firefox wanted to do its update thingy. I let it, It rebooted, now it wont go to any web page. I uninstalled it from my computer, removed EVERY trace of it, and reinstalled it from the website. still doesnt work. Is it the new version or what? Im mad.

 

I just updated mine to 2.0.0.4, seems to work fine.

 

Works perfectly for me too. Don't know what your problem is, you have MCE 2k5 so it shouldn't be giving you problems like the vista one.

 

It works fine for me too. Maybe you can try to install an old version at OldVersion.com try to update again from then.

 

Firefox V2.0.0.4 is working fine on both my machines: Windows\XP Pro SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium.

 

I switched over to Vista and updated firefox and it works fine. But something is wrong with my xp end now. I can't get firefox to work after uninstalling and cleaning registry or anything. It just wont work, it loads up, but wont go to any website it says that it timed out or whatnot.

 

any ideas how to get my firefox to work? when it updated it said something about java not compatible or didnt work or sumthin

 

First question- Does IE work?
If yes, then it's definitely a FF problem.
If no, then it's a windows problem. (which would be weird, but not unheard of)

 

If you updated Java (or it auto-updated), there does seem to be a problem with that and FF 2.0.0.4. Either Java or FF prevented it from updating.

On FF 2.0.0.4 updated on my desktop and both laptoptops and work fine. The update on the desktop kind of hiccuped though. I had to reboot and everything was OK. All machines running WinXP MCE 2005.

Did you delete your FF profile folder too, when you uninstalled? It doesn't get deleted through Add/Remove. I also delete all Firefox or Mozilla folders and reboot before trying a re-install.

Link to how to find/remove profile: Mozilla Instructions re Personal Profile

 

yes i removed EVERYTHING lol related to firefox, i did a search on my pc for "mozilla" and "firefox" and deleted it all, and then did a registry clean b4 i reinstalled. IE does work, but FF doesn't.

 

Well glad IE is working then at least.

Try installing new Java SDK maybe? Also are you behind a Proxy, Firewall or something? Maybe you need to change your Network connection settings within Firefox to get it to work.

Tools/
Options/
Settings/

Try setting it to Automatic or something maybe?

 

The most common reason for not being able to connect to the net after updating browser is firewall. Most decent firewalls can detect that the executable is different from the one that was used when the application was allowed and block it.

 

I don't have a firewall running, and I'm using the same router as I'm using FF on with Vista. What is a new Java SDK, I think that might be what I need..

 

Java Software Developers Kit.

 

If you are running XP and have not gone out to get the real JAVA and installed it, you should.

 

I have installed it before...everything ran perfect before I updated firefox, then when it updated something spazzed out something involving Java (i can't remember specifically) and then it asked to restart firefox and it didnt work.

 

this is still bothering me

 

I really don't know what this is. I went in IE6 and updated it to IE7 and then even IE wouldn't go to webpages. So I uninstalled IE7 again and it reverted back to IE6 and now I can get on webpages again. Firefox still doesn't work. My friend told me something about a winsock corruption or something. This is really annoying because on the same system just on my Vista partition everything works fine. I have no firewalls, or any fishy processes running. I am angry.

I re-downloaded the java runtime and all of that and it didn't fix anything. This is making me very very very angry >.<.

 

If you're running XP, it could be the winsock corruption. It can show up in unusual ways. Try the fix mentioned here:

http://forums.techguy.org/tech-tips-tricks/487258-corrupt-winsock-xp.html

 

nope that didn't work..

I think this thread is talking about it, ive read it, just can't get anything helpful from it http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=532575

 

Arg I am on the verge of doing a reformat, this is really bugging me.

 

Recently lent my old PowerBook to my ex. When it was returned today, FF would not work on my machine either - no matter what I tried . . . at first. Seems to be an epidemic at hand. Fortunately, deleting and reinstalling cured the issue.

Have you tried manually deleting Mozilla in addition to FF? On an eMachines desktop a friend recently bought, we had issues completely deleting Norton until we also deleted Symantec from her computer. Maybe if you tried deleting the "parent" and then another cleaning of the registry your machine will allow you to reinstall FF?

 

Have you tried FF safe mode(start-programs-Mozilla Firefox-Mozilla Firefox(safe mode)

 

tried both those things guys to no avail.

 

AHHH im having the same exact problem too! my firefox hasnt been working for around a week or so since i updated something on it. IE works fine but firefox keeps saying

Unable to connect

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.google.com.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

ahhhhh......and im not sure if this has to do with the firefox problem but my AIM triton wont connect either. the old version of aim works fine but triton wont work anymore either.

but back to firefox. i tried to delete all of its files and reinstall it..didnt work

anyone know if theres a number or some contact info for mozilla i can talk to them through?

 

Here's the link for Firefox support:

http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/support/

As far as I know, all that's available is the forum or the online chat (IRC). There's a link on that page called "3rd party support" that might offer some phone assistance for a fee.

I'd strongly suggest searching the forums there for the problem before posting. They are very, mmmm, snooty? They're nice enough (usually), but can get testy with folks who haven't tried to find the problem. Especially if there's already a fix posted somewhere.

 

Sounds like your firewall is blocking it somehow. Have you installed ZoneAlarm or something else lately? Check the blocked applications list in your firewall, and make sure that you're only running one firewall (multiple firewalls just causes issues)

 

Check FF and AIM to see if you maybe have a proxy setup to connect. If IE works, then it's a problem with how those two programs are connecting to the internet. It could also be a firewall issue, but most likely only if you have a 3rd party firewall. I would go into the connections dialog and set it to default, if it is there, reset it. See what happens.