Encountered a Firefox problem and had to delete it

[Larry_OHF]

I was browsing the net with Firefox when suddenly connection was lost after about an hour. I flipped over to Explorer to see if I could get a connection because my modem was not indicating a problem. I was unable to connect to the internet on most sites I tried, but a few of my saved favorites were able to connect...not all of them. I decided that since the problem began while using Firefox, I'd blame it, and deleted it off the machine. I can now access the internet again uninhibited.

By the way, I tried booting Firefox in its safe mode (disconnecting all plugins, etc.) but to no avail.

Seems I remember somebody else having a problem similar to this several months ago.

[Larry_OHF]

Crap! How did it do that????

I deleted it off my system, reinstalled it from the website...and it reloaded with all its settings and skins that I had before! WTF??

[robertthebard]

Parts of it were still in your system registry, I'd say.

[Larry_OHF]

Originally posted by robertthebard: Parts of it were still in your system registry, I'd say.

= EVIL !!

[Luvian]

Probably more in it's config folder. I'm guessing you didn't change the install path.

That's a strange bug, never heard of anything like that, and I'm using quite a bunch of plugins and scripts.

[Iron Greasel]

I don't think the unistaller deletes stuff you have added yourself post-installation. So unless you delete the program folder (or possibly config folder, or possibly both), you get to keep all the stuff you have collected. Certainly, it is a twisted, curdled, corrupted and evil power, but you might as well use it now that it's there.