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Re: "Errors" on fresh install of Firefox 6.x

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:30:20 UTC, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> John Small wrote:
> > I understand that these may not be serious errors. But shouldn't a
> > clean install be able to start without anything being written to the
> > Error Console?
> 
> In theory there should be no warnings.
> In practice, the Mozilla people have decided on a rapid release schedule 
> and part of this is just removing errors and removing most warnings but 
> if a warning is considered harmless it may be ignored in the interest of 
> getting out the latest.

To me, this is insanity. This approach is making Firefox less and less
appealing. Unfortunately Seamonkey is doing the same thing so I appear
to be "stuck".

> Also some of these warnings may be OS/2 specific, in which case 
> apologies but there are 3 of us doing the work of 10 in our spare time. 

And I deeply appreciate your efforts! (And understand you three having
nothing to do with the "insanity" of the rapid release schedule.)

> Some of these warnings may also be caused by having your profile in 
> tree. This is probably rare now a days as all the common supported 
> systems automatically have a preferred spot for the profile. There 
> profile is probably not virginal either so if a manifest is not 
> installed, then the previous installed one works good enough.


Not for me.

As I posted elsewhere, I am having sporadic problems while navagating 
the web:
- Pages that never finish loading
- Pages that "finish" loading (as indicated by the throbber and a 
"Done" message at the bottom) but are completely enpty. (Even "View 
source" shows nothing!?)

These problems started as I switched to a new system and a DSL 
connection (from a very old system with a dialup connection. I did not
have these problems with the old system. So I do not think the 
problems are due to some inherent part of eCS. 

My DSL provider, Verizon, will not help me unless I pay them because I
am not using Windows. And I cannot afford to pay them. So I have been 
trying to figure out what is going on by myself, with help from kind 
people like you on Usenet.

As part of my search for the cause(s) of my problems, I deleted the 
MOZILLA_HOME and MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH settings from CONFIG.SYS so I could 
try different browsers, each with their own profiles.

I have found that while the problems do not disappear they are less 
severe if I start with a fresh profile. And I started looking at the 
Firefox "Error Console" to see if there indications of why these pages
were causing so much trouble. It is while I was looking at the Error 
Console right after deleting the profile directory that I noticed that
there were errors before I evan started trying to load the problematic
pages. This is what led me to my question about the errors that seem 
to accompany a fresh install of Firefox.

Any suggestions for how I can diagnose or fix my bigger problem (or 
where I should go to get such help) will be greatly appreicated!

Thanks!

-- 

John Small

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"Errors" on fresh install of Firefox 6.x "John Small" <zjsmallz@os2world.net> - 2011-09-12 09:57 +0000
  Re: "Errors" on fresh install of Firefox 6.x Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-17 22:30 -0700
    Re: "Errors" on fresh install of Firefox 6.x "John Small" <zjsmallz@os2world.net> - 2011-09-20 12:13 +0000

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