firefox
So, I had been excited about trying out the new release of Firefox, Bon Echo (as they’re calling it) but today was the first chance I had to install it. I was expecting a relatively simple install, typical of a Firefox update…and then it happened.

I knew that add-on developers hadn’t gotten around to updating a lot of what’s out there, so I totally expected to give up a couple of things I already had installed. So I open up the browser and I do some clicking around; I notice a few interface issues, so I disable this and enable that. Nothing worked. I would pop open a new tab, but I couldn’t load a web page in it, it would only load into the first tab. I also couldn’t close any of the tabs. After trying to do all of this, none of the selectable areas would work such as the URL bar drop-down.

I was in distress. So I look around the Mozilla support page - nothing. I run a google search manually because the search bar in Firefox wasn’t working - nothing. I restart FF, I restarted Windows, still nothing.

Just as I was about to reinstall the previous version, I thought maybe I should just try reinstalling version 2 again. Good idea. It’s now working like a charm and I’m really digging the new features.

So if you had any of the same problems, I figured since I couldn’t find anything about them, I’d post a little tip.

Happy browsing.

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