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re: Firefox Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 2:51 am Posted by KeithT (2653 messages posted) No you don't. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 4:54 am Posted by werner (7097 messages posted) No,just make Firefox your Default Browser,if you wish to use FF most of the time.IE is part of the O/S and near impossible to Uninstall anyway :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:38 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) .. thought this would be a good place to insert that tidbit. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:47 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) A couple days ago I checked, and a Firefox update was avail, for my 1.5.10pre, and in the middle of the update my dsl connection crapped out. Firefox still works fine, but the update won't finish now, I can't uninstall Firefox from add/remove programs, and even installing Firefox over the top of itself didn't fix it. Looks like I will have to manually remove it now, if I ever want a update for Firefox again. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:05 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Yeah, I don't really like that d/l update right there business. It's much better to d/l and install manually. Just delete the folder in Program Files, and run CCleaner issues.. or not. :) Btw, Steve.. you gotta go with 2.0, it's a big improvement, IMO. Don't hesistate, seriously. I went with 2 after they came out with the first update. No problems. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:06 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Never thought of this, but it would likely work to FF 2 over the top (which works fine, btw), then uninstall it and do a clean install of 2.... P.S. the uninstaller now removes it's directory and immediately after uninstalling. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:51 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I have Firefox 2 on the linux computer, and it works great, Fixing Firefox on the Windows computer will be a good task to do today. I manually had to remove Firefox 1.0 once before, and I don't remember it being to hard to do. It only has a couple registry entries, and a couple folders to get rid of. My DSL internet has worked great for about 5 years, and in the past couple weeks has been a pain. I think the ISP servers must be getting some maintenance, Not sure. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 12:05 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) I know it wouldn't be hard to manually remove it, but installing 2, then uninstalling/reinstalling would take less than 2 minutes. When I d/l the update last evening, I did an uninstall, install in less than a minute. I'm not exaggerating. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 3:40 pm Posted by werner (7097 messages posted) just prompted me to Update(Same Version as Steve's)Updated it and it runs well.Suppose I'll get around to V2.0.... one of these days.Thanks for the Reminder,though. :) werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 6:19 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Well I manually removed the several Firefox folders, and reg entries. I didn't time it, but 6 minutes 33 seconds is close. So Firefox is reinstalled, and all is well. My internet hasn't crashed all day either. Wonder what's up with that.:) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:36 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Six and 1/2 minutes is waay too long. Firefox doesn't add many registry entries, so that's another nice thing about it. You really don't need to delete any other folders when you uninstall it, though... other than the Program Files dir. I like clean installs, but I did those in place updates a few times. Do you s'pose all those in place updates goofed up your net connection? That would be odd. I'd have been contacting my IP by this time. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Firefox 2.0.0.2 update available... Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 8:28 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Firefox wouldn't uninstall, when I click on the uninstall it just sat there, and did nothing. That was a bit strange. Also thought strange that installing over the top of itself didn't fix the uninstall, and yet even after all that Firefox seemed to still work normally. Most of the time manually removing Firefox, was backing up, and reinstalling My Bookmarks. I'm sure I could have cut my time way down in manually removing it, without that added complication,... :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum