Firefox issues

Dave Siciliano

Dave Siciliano

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Since switching to Firefox, I've run into several problems.

In general, many times I have to click on a site several times to get it to come up. Does anyone have an idea why I'd have to go to bookmarks and click things two or three times to get the site to come up?

On the AOPA site, when I click members or aviation forums, all I get is a blank page with done in the bottom left corner. No matter how many times I click, I can't get into the member's section or forums.

Have the same issues on some other sites.

Ideas/suggestions appreciated.

Best,

Dave
 
I have that problem with the AOPA site. I've determined that it only happens after I leave the site and come back. If you close down Firefox and then re-start it and go to the AOPA site all of the links will work.

Since I figured that out I just open the forums in their own tab and don't close that tab until I quit for the day.
 
Dave Siciliano said:
Since switching to Firefox, I've run into several problems.

In general, many times I have to click on a site several times to get it to come up. Does anyone have an idea why I'd have to go to bookmarks and click things two or three times to get the site to come up?
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I've never had that issue. When it is happening does it say it's doining anyhting on the status bar, bottom left hand corner. I've been using firefox since day one.

Other then that it'd be hard to troubleshoot, Without something like netstat to see if the browser is actually attempting to make the connection or not.

Check out Firefox's website, There should be sometihng called BugZilla that may list hte common bugs, and or fixes... Or say that they are working on it.
 
GaryO said:
I have that problem with the AOPA site. I've determined that it only happens after I leave the site and come back. If you close down Firefox and then re-start it and go to the AOPA site all of the links will work.

Since I figured that out I just open the forums in their own tab and don't close that tab until I quit for the day.
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I have that problem as well and only on the AOPA site. When you want it do try to link from the AOPA main site. Go straight to the forum URL and it works everytime. I don't think it is a Firefox problem as much as it is the windows server that AOPA uses.

Scott
 
Not so sure. I have hadthe same issue, and not just at AOPA; when I use netaddress.com (generic email site), same precise thing occurs. Shut down FF, restart, it works fine.

Muy strange.
 
that's interesting .. do you guys go directly to the aopa forum? or do you go in through the main site?

i have the forums bookmarked, i use firefox, and i've never experienced the issue.
 
I go to the main AOPA site and use the link there to get to the forums.
 
I just experimented a little. It looks like something only allows one instance of the AOPA forums to be open. I can go to the AOPA main page and open the forums in a new tab - no problem. Then try to open the forums in a second tab - blank page. I can have as many tabs as I want with individual threads but I can only get one tab with the main forum page.
Apparently, if you open the forums, leave, and then try to come back, it thinks you are trying to open a second instance of the forums.

For me it's not much of an issue. I just open the forum in it's own tab, open POA in it's own tab, and don't close those tabs until I close down Firefox altogether.
 
GaryO said:
I just experimented a little. It looks like something only allows one instance of the AOPA forums to be open. I can go to the AOPA main page and open the forums in a new tab - no problem. Then try to open the forums in a second tab - blank page. I can have as many tabs as I want with individual threads but I can only get one tab with the main forum page.
Apparently, if you open the forums, leave, and then try to come back, it thinks you are trying to open a second instance of the forums.

For me it's not much of an issue. I just open the forum in it's own tab, open POA in it's own tab, and don't close those tabs until I close down Firefox altogether.
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I've been using Firefox (and Mozilla) on AOPA and POA for years with no such problems. The only issue I ever encountered was on the old AOPA board when I tried to open the separate "Medical Matters" forum with the rest of the forums open in another window or tab. I often open multiple threads and multiple forums in different tabs of the same window and have never had any difficulties like what's been described on this thread.

I wonder if the real problem is outside the browser and involves something that associates incoming and outgoing ports etc (like a firewall and/or router).
 
lancefisher said:
I wonder if the real problem is outside the browser and involves something that associates incoming and outgoing ports etc (like a firewall and/or router).
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Could be. I know that I go through a firewall with very strict settings.
 
GaryO said:
Could be. I know that I go through a firewall with very strict settings.
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As a former network administrator for an ISP, I'm trying to figure out how the firewall that secures the LAN would cause the problem you mentioned on the local machine. I'm thinking it's an issue with FF interfacing with Winblows. I've seen that happen more often than not with 3rd party software that's not MS in it's root origin.

:dunno:
 
I haven't had the issues that Dave describes, but I can not get any Firefox updates. I get the pop up "balloon" that tells me updates are available but when I click it I get a status bar that doesn't move. I've even left it overnight and nothing downloads.

Any ides?
 
Alan:

I've had the same thing on updates. The software is working better as far as connecting when I point to a bookmark, but on AOPA I sometimes have to close Firefox and reopen it. Also, have to clear the cashe.

Dave
 
Maybe the makers of Firefox were trying to protect your sanity by keeping you off the AOPA webboard. You should be thanking them.

But seriously...I have the same problem. When I click the messaging link from the main AOPA page, I select the open-in-new-tab feature, which has worked every time. Then I prompty regret doing it.

Jon
 
Alan said:
I haven't had the issues that Dave describes, but I can not get any Firefox updates. I get the pop up "balloon" that tells me updates are available but when I click it I get a status bar that doesn't move. I've even left it overnight and nothing downloads.

Any ides?
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It's a known problem. They've fixed the updating in a later version of Firefox, so just upgrade and your'e all set with updating. :rolleyes:

Just re-download the whole program file from http://www.mozilla.org and install it over your current version. You can uninstall the current one first if you want. You won't lose any of your settings.

The Firefox update downloads the whole thing anyway. They're working on a way to do incremental updates, but it's small enough that downloading the whole thing isn't so bad anyway.
 
Thanks Mike. I'm downloading the latest version now.
 
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