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Old November 11th, 2006, 01:27 AM
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Firefox 2.0 bites the dust
Sad to say, the browser of my choice is going south fast. After uninstalling and reinstalling 4 times I've about had enough. Not even sure if it would be worth the effort of trying v1.5 again as this problem has been around awhile and no cure as far as I can find.

It's the XPCOM: Event Receiver bug and I have a hard time shutdown even when asking for the program to end, and takes several reboots to get the modem working again. A google search gets some suggestions but none of them work. Haven't found anyone solve this yet. IE is beginning to look better.

Anyone else having this problem...possible cure?
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Old November 11th, 2006, 02:54 AM
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try uninstalling it for the fifth time, manually delete any firefox folders left on your computer. Download a fresh copy and reinstall.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 07:46 AM
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Don't take out your problems on Firefox, its not doing that, Shame on you for saying Firefox has bit the dust
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Old November 11th, 2006, 12:14 PM
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Don't take out your problems on Firefox its Windows XP doing that, Shame on you for even saying dust and Firefox in the same line.
No, it wasn't WindowsXP.
Firefox and the free Comodo Firewall are not compatible. I kept reading people telling those getting the "XPCOM: Event Receiver" error at shutdown that it wasn't compatible with McAfee's so I finally tried uninstalling Comodo and sure enough, that was the conflict. Funny that I tested it over a week before that without a problem and wonder if it could have been related to one of the recent Add-ons. But no matter, no Comodo, no Firefox problem.

But anyhow, sorry to get frustrated, but after so much...it happens.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 12:20 PM
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Don't take out your problems on Firefox its Windows XP doing that, Shame on you for even saying dust and Firefox in the same line.

DUSTANDFIREFOX in the same line and without any spaces

i have reverted back to previious firefox and well as IE6...
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Old November 11th, 2006, 12:26 PM
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Don't take out your problems on Firefox its Windows XP doing that, Shame on you for even saying dust and Firefox in the same line.
both msie 7 and firefox are decent browsers. Its how it is used that causes the problems. As with anything, you gotta keep them updated for them to be safe since both have security issues at times.
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Old November 12th, 2006, 05:15 PM
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No, it wasn't WindowsXP.
Firefox and the free Comodo Firewall are not compatible.
Interesting, using it on my machine. Good so far after a month.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 12:40 AM
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Interesting, using it on my machine. Good so far after a month.
...then maybe it was related to one of the add-ons I added to Firefox.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 09:43 AM
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DUSTANDFIREFOX in the same line and without any spaces
Can you calm down?, and no that didn't annoy me at all, it just made me think about how sad some people are.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 09:49 AM
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Can you calm down?, and no that didn't annoy me at all, it just made me think about how sad some people are.
Sorry i didnt mean to upset you.. if you noticed the smilie i was laughing
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