305969 - nonresponsive after displaying first page. Leaves process behind

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James Rome]

For the last few days my firefox 1.0.6 hs become non-functional. It loads the
first page OK, but then it just sits there saying "connecting to...." and then
if I am lucky "connected to..." and it just sits there. If I exit Firefox, there
is still a firefox process running in task manager. 

This started after downloading an update for password maker which it complained
about (bad xml). I was unable to see it any more in the tools pop-up to remove it.

So I uninstalled Firefox, deleted the chrome and plugins directory and
reinstlled. Now I only have 2 plugins (adblock and flashblock) but still cannot
do anything with firefox.

What has happened? How do I recover? (I need to save my password list and
certificates if I make a new profile).

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Probably a profile corruption. The most simple solution is deleting everything
in your profile except for the most important files like bookmarks.html,
cookies.txt, key3.db and signons.txt.

Comment 2

[James Rome]

It was my profile.It is bad news when they get corrupted. Is key3.db where my
passwords are saved? I tried moving the 3 security files to my new profile, and
it caused a hang when I opened the security properties.