quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running: firefox -safe-mode holding down the option key while starting Firefox. However, history often helps there but sometimes the session information goes astray and you just have to hope there was nothing important underway.Note: You can also start Firefox in Safe Mode by holding down the shift key while starting Firefox. It's a hazard of being interrupted and trying to manage things in a concurrent rather than linear manner. I often have a lot of tabs open with no major drama apart from the occasional unresponsive script errors and I usually tell it to continue and the system recovers normally within a few seconds, occasionally more like quarter to half a minute and only on extremely rare occasions does it take - not recovering your open tabs is a pain in the neck if you've a few things on the go and may not remember what they all are. I, too, am running Firefox on Vista with 2gb memory on a Dell Latitude D530. That also said, WOT doesn't usually cause enough trouble for me to have ever bothered looking into fixing/replacing it. That said, I consider it an essential addon UNLESS I discover another that does the same thing with less trouble. If you are able to start in Safe Mode, rescuing bookmarks becomes a lot easier and you could ignore the first article.Īn addon that I find responsible for a lot of unresponsive script messages appears to be WOT. Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode This article says you can start in Safe Mode by holding down Shift as you start Firefox: It used to be that we went to the Firefox folder in the Start menu but that looks to have changed. You would reinstall your addons one at a time after reinstalling Firefox and see if one of those creates the same problem again.ĭo you know about Safe Mode with Firefox? It doesn't mean restarting your computer in Safe Mode it means starting Firefox in a different way to normal. My personal preference would be to only rescue bookmarks but then, I never save passwords which is one thing a lot of people like to do.Īddons are also called 'extensions.' The article won't show you how to copy those across because as it says, they could be the cause of the problem.
Recovering important data from an old profile
Here's a link to being able to keep/restore that information if you find you need to: But a new installation (I think) will create a new profile and that new profile wouldn't have the bookmarks and history in it that you have now. Firefox is a program you can uninstall it and not lose your music, photos, etc. Programs and personal files are two different things.
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