Jump to content

Accessing FDM troubles


Arilaftia

Recommended Posts

Well in poking around with this last night and this morning... I found something. I had to download a new browser all together.. (Slimbrowser) Reboot my computer.. then acess FDM through that... But as soon as I go to firefox and try to enter.. everything is blocked again on all the browsers I have... So Im believeing something in Firefox is causing the issue.. Later today Ill do the saving bookmarks Uninstall and reinstall.. Hopefully that will clear up the problem!

I just love Firefox! I would hate to lose it.

Link to comment

Just reinstall won't do you much good. I had a similar problem, and finally it was corrected by removing the user profile used by firefox. Let me see if I can find that article and you can see if that applies to you.

 

Do try the reinstall though, if that helps no point in doing anything else. :P

Link to comment

Genius, Myles, I NEVER knew that...that ANOTHER profile is made...ahhhh

 

I just did search and actually found it on first search:

 

http://www.google.ca/search?q=user+profile...lient=firefox-a

 

 

by typing in user profile created by firefox and got to a ffox support page for accessing the profile here is a small excerpt from the link page:

 

Any changes you make while using Firefox are stored in files so that they can be used the next time you run Firefox. These changes can be obvious, like your home page, or changes you've made to the toolbar, but also include things like your history, what sites you've visited and text you've entered into forms like search fields. They're all stored in the same location, called a profile folder.These files are kept separately from the program files that Firefox uses to run, which don't change. This means that you can uninstall Firefox without losing your settings, and that if something goes wrong with an update your information will still be there. It also means you don't have to reinstall Firefox to clear your information, or troubleshoot a problem.

 

With the link being this to how to reset your profile:

 

http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles

 

 

Ari, it looks like Myles has saved the day, let's hope for the best.

:P

 

gogo

Link to comment

You are so fast gogo, sneak that one in while I search. :P

 

Yeah, I couldn't fix my problem with firefox. End up using IE (with great pain! :)) to search. Created a new profile and everything was back to normal again.

Link to comment

Oh thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! :P:):bow:

 

Ill tackle this as soon as Kami is over today!

Crossing my fingers here... should be an interesting run!

Link to comment

Ari, this thread is VERY useful perhaps to others here in the future...would you mind if we brought it out into the open for our members to know about this?

Myles you okay with this?

 

:P

 

gogo

Link to comment
  • 1 month later...

Not sure if this is any help to your problem, but since I'm a Firefox user I thought I could always write a few notes.

 

Most of the times when I experience any issues(Bookmarks gets deleted, for exampel) with Firefox, it has something to do with my profile. I just start the manager upp by 'Run -> firefox.exe -ProfileManager' and then you can do some changes from there, like reload a profile. Not sure why Firefox does this sometimes.

 

Another little trick I got is to speed Firexfox up a bit. Hit 'about:config' in the adress and you'll get the settings for Firefox. Search for a line that says "network.http.pipelining", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" (should be right next to eachother). Pipelining is a way to alter how many requests Firefox does to a web page at once, more requests will make it 'respond' faster, as it speeds up page loading. Change "network.http.pipelining" and "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to 'true' and set the 'maxrequest' to 4 or 6 or something, but try to keep it under 10. This means it will make more requests at once.

Then right-click anywhere and you can make 'New-> Integer', do this and name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' and set the value to '0'. This is the time Firefox waits before it acts on information it recieves.

 

Not sure if this is any vital information at all, but maybe it will be a help to someone :blink:

Edited by Den Delvar
Link to comment

Really great advice Den. Thank you. :evil:

 

I just applied the changes you suggested to the about:config so I'll be enjoying some zipping around the net. Cheers! :evil:

Link to comment

I'm always looking for better ways of adding more octane to the browser. Thanks Den, for the advice here, making changes as we speak.

 

Cheers!

 

:evil:

 

gogo

Link to comment
Another little trick I got is to speed Firexfox up a bit. Hit 'about:config' in the adress and you'll get the settings for Firefox. Search for a line that says "network.http.pipelining", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" (should be right next to eachother). Pipelining is a way to alter how many requests Firefox does to a web page at once, more requests will make it 'respond' faster, as it speeds up page loading. Change "network.http.pipelining" and "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to 'true' and set the 'maxrequest' to 4 or 6 or something, but try to keep it under 10. This means it will make more requests at once.

Then right-click anywhere and you can make 'New-> Integer', do this and name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' and set the value to '0'. This is the time Firefox waits before it acts on information it recieves.

 

Not sure if this is any vital information at all, but maybe it will be a help to someone :)

 

Actually Den, if I'm not mistaking (which is always a hazard with me :)) an add-on program called FasterFox does exactly that. At least pumping up pipelining and requests.

Doing this can have some negative side effects though. Some sites don't cope well with the high request rate and fail to render fully, and one must not forget that by increasing the requests you also increase the load on the servers. Just a note to explain the effects :)

Edited by Timotheus
Link to comment

True. I had that in mind when I wrote the post, I believe FasterFox has higher requests than if you do it this way. Keeping the values under 10 won't put much strain on any server. I have full respect for hard working servers and bandwidth!

Edited by Den Delvar
Link to comment

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...
Please Sign In or Sign Up