After being forced to reboot after another program locked up - I had successfully closed Firefox and all but one program - I came back to find that all my settings in Firefox (as well as one other program, but that one, I got working just fine).
I’ve managed to recover almost all of my settings - my themes and extensions, saved passwords, extension settings, even tabbar settings - all working fine.
BUT. Now my toolbar and window size settings won’t hold.
Usually, I have my toolbars set to ‘small icons’ and the nav toolbar buttons/boxes moved up to the menu bar (and the now vacant nav bar removed), and Firefox sized to take up about 3/4 of my screen.
But now, I set that, and when I restart Firefox, the nav bar’s still a separate toolbar, the icons are large, and Firefox takes up about 95% of my screen.
This only holds for Firefox - all other windows hold their size, and keep any other aesthetic settings I give them.
It’s a minor thing - functionally, the program does exactly what it should. But it annoys me greatly to have so much screen real estate taken up by the browser and so much browser real estate taken up by the tool bars.
Which brings me to the question - does anyone have any clue what happened and how I can fix it?
You would need to remove everything Firefox related. If you just uninstall/reinstall there are folders left behind that will reapply your settings - or at least the stuff you are trying to get rid of.
Search for and delete, after uninstalling Firefox, all files and folders with Firefox or Mozilla in their titles, then reinstall Firefox. Should get you where you want to be.
Although many people here seem to love Firefox, when I tried to use it I found that it chewed up all the CPU if I had open several tabs that automatically update. As a keen gambler this is pretty common. I couldn’t find any answer other than “bad luck”. So I use IE7 now.
Never seen anything like that, but you could try deleting (or perhaps renaming in case you might want to revert to the current state) your profile directory in C:\Documents and Settings<user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and the matching directory in C:\Documents and Settings<user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.
don’t ask, I’ve seen that behaviour caused by the Flash plug-in. Since I installed the Flashblock extension it hasn’t affected me. Whether more recent versions of the Flash plug-in are better, I don’t know.