Firefox being weird? Or computer? Or....?

[Xenomic]

So for a while now I've noticed a few things here and there, which I don't know if it's my computer, Firefox, or something else. I have checked in Chrome and all 3 issues that I'll be listing here do not happen in Chrome (I don't use Chrome though because I have OTHER issues with Chrome that I don't have with Firefox, such as Flash constantly crashing and other things crashing in it).

1) Very minor as it's only one site, but on the Final Fantasy Wiki, I cannot see more than 3 images at any given time. This doesn't happen in Chrome at all.

2) Firefox will not refresh itself whenever I get a new email, and now I have to F5/Reload the page to see if I got anything.

3) As of tonight of going to the site, Mediafire will NOT load anything for me. At all. This doesn't happen in Chrome, so...yeah...

I don't know if I need to reinstall Firefox, if it's some other problem, or what. Can someone perhaps give me insight as to what the problem may be?

[「ⒻⓊⒸⓀⓎⒺⒶⒽ」]

Try the following:

1. What version of FF are you using? Latest?
2. Disable all addons, then load the page again and see if the problems occur.
3. For the e-mail thing, what e-mail service/client is it? Gmail?

[Xenomic]

1) 15.0.1 is what I'm on
3) Hotmail.


The only addon I really have is Adblocker (I don't think I have many other addons so...), and I wouldn't THINK that'd be the problem...I'll see though.


EDIT - Looking at my add-ons, I only have Adblock Plus, Better JTV, and Rikaichan, but there are 3 separate Java Consoles that are disabled (Java Console 6.0.33, Java Console 6.0.35, and Java Quick Starter 1.0). I've no idea what those Javas are or why they're disabled but...yeah....

[「ⒻⓊⒸⓀⓎⒺⒶⒽ」]

I presume you would have flash, but yeh, disable every addon/plugin (they're in 2 seperate categories) and then try.

What you want to do is to determine if a vanilla FF has the problem. I don't think it would be your PC.

[Valodim]

to see if vanilla ff still has the problem, it's easier to get one of the portable versions which keep to themselves, like they are usually put on usb sticks.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

[Xenomic]

With this portable thing, do I install it on the computer itself or on the external drive/whatever? Sounds like such a silly question but...


I did disable all of the add-ons too, and seemed that nothing changed so...

[Valodim]

you don't install it, it just works out of the box from where you run it. doesn't matter where from. that's the point.

[Xenomic]

It asked me to install it when I opened it to run it, but oh well. It seems that the issues that I listed (FFWiki not showing images and not working correctly and Mediafire not loading up) don't happen in the Portable soooo....yeah. SOMETHING is definitely up with this Firefox then....

[Ζεϱø]

Something like a third party traffic limiter? Maybe? Or Firefox configuration?

[Xenomic]

I dunno. It didn't start happening till I THINK when Firefox last updated to 15.0.1 (the most recent version), but it couldn't be THAT since well...the portable one is the most recent version too and it works fine. Hmm.....

[Xenomic]

Ok, so I was checking my Addons and whatnot to see if they were up-to-date, and updated my QuickTime and Flash. Doing both of those didn't solve the issue with anything that I'm having problems with. The only other things that it says that need updated are the Java Platform SE thingie, the Java Deployment Toolkit thingie, RealPlayer, and Adobe Acrobat. Could any of those potentially be what's wrong?

[Ζεϱø]

The best thing to do is to reinstall firefox. And then, if it still won't work we will know that the cause is not any plugin. But by doing that you will lose your stuff so i don't know.

[Xenomic]

Yeah, that's the only thing I'm worried about is losing my Addons and bookmarks and stuff. Granted, I can export my bookmarks (and probably re-import them) but the fact remains that I'll have to reinstall and refind the addons. @_@;;

[Ζεϱø]

Yeah and you don't even know if it will work.
Even if you write them down it will take some time to install them all and probably for nothing because we still don't know what is the problem.

Look for some installed programs that you think might interfere with Firefox. You never know...

[Xenomic]

Someone in another forum thought it sounded like NoScript, but I don't have NoScript installed so I know it's not that. I honestly can't think of what programs would even interfere at this point seeing as I haven't added any new programs in forever...

[Ζεϱø]

NoScript is a plugin right? Then even if it was installed it wouldn't matter because you disabled everything

If this is not related to any plugins/extension or programs then it has to be the settings. i can't think of anything else that can do this

[Xenomic]

I wouldn't know what would of changed in the settings (or how to even really look at em since I never mess with settings). And yeah, it's a plugin so it wouldn't have mattered regardless if I had it or not.

[Ζεϱø]

Well i thought that the settings got corrupted while you were updating (by importing) or something

Now that i open the settings i can't see anything that would allow a certain amount of images to load or stop a website from loading.
Access the settings by typing about:home and clicking settings

[Xenomic]

Yeah, I'm not seeing anything in the settings either (and I just realized I could've gotten there from Tools > Options as well...herp).

[Ζεϱø]

Oh there's one more thing to try, the web developer stuff. Try the error console Ctrl+Shift+j