azurelunatic | Firefox vs. Windows XP

When running FireFox 1.0 on a Windows XP system, and running more than one user account on said XP system and running Firefox on both of those accounts, funkiness may result.

To be specific, after I used the guest account on my XP system for the first time, and Firefox was used (well, technically my roommate did the surfing, and it wasn't "Guest", it was another account with guest privs), Firefox on my login suddenly started caching pages inappropriately. Namely, even though I had the cache size set to 0, my friends page wasn't showing updates when updates happened. (I tested this by viewing /friends?skip=0.)

I had to clear the cache before the page would start updating, and after I cleared the cache, I had to continually clear it each time I wanted the page to be checked again each time. Finally, I figured it out, went into the guest account, and set Firefox to cache = 0 (from 5000), and all my troubles went away. At least, all my browser troubles. Well, most of them. Firefox still doesn't like PopCap Games' content.

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Firefox and WinXP are a little strange even if you only have one user account. Firefox will occasionally randomly crash on me (not even close to as many times as IE does, though). Sometimes, when I click on links, it saves the page to my desktop. How strange is that?

Funky. I've never had that interesting behaviour. I wonder if it's, like, shift-click or something. I know control-click is open in new tab.

Dunno, but it's not really a tragic flaw (if not a keystroke error that I don't realize I'm doing, and that's completely possible), so yeah.

I know pushing the ' while on a page not a text entry area brings up the search.

And the search is b0rked; it doesn't find things on the page that are on the page.

I feel lucky. I've been using Firefox with XP ever since installing XP and it's been clear sailing. *knock on wood* And I have two other user accounts on my box, one that gets used reguarly along with Firefox on that one.

I chalk it up to the funky moodiness that is M$ products I guess. When I first installed XP, I had nothing but one trouble after another with the machine crashing and eating the contents of the slave drive (not when firefox was running). A friend joked that the box knew a Mac user was sitting infront of it. ;)

The machines know. XP is evil, pure unadulterate evil. It's prone to sending me into boot loops and forcing a restore to last saved state... which is funny because I don't have to make any changes at all and it does that.

Since reinstalling XP after a 2 state move (Not only did the hd not totally surivive the move, my XP Pro disk was stolen when our storage unit was broken into. Yay for friends still in school who got me another copy!), XP is finally behaving for me.

But I wonder how well it will behave when we get a Mac Mini with tax return money... *grin*

I have to wonder if it was having both accounts logged in simultaneously that was the cause of the problem.

I have firefox on a two account XP system where both are administrators, and I have been trying to figure out whether firefox updates both accounts simultaneously or not. I haven't figured it out because I update from the "other" account rarely, but have had updates to firefox installed from both accounts. I haven't tried restricting the cache in one or the other, though. And now I get confused because the "programs" are open in seperate tabs at the bottom of the screen on XP but the seperate internet tabs are open at the top of the screen. I usually move the mouse to my default direction, which is down, and then have to redirect the motion back to the top of the screen. So, either XP needs to make the toolbar positionable at the top of the screen, or firefox needs to make tabs positionable at the bottom of the window, I think.

On my edition of FireFox, Tab > Tab Browser Extensions > Appearance > Tab Bar has a tool to manage that. I'm using this tool to make it do that.

Aargh. And here I am ignorantly running an XP box running Firefox 1.0 with one admin and two user accounts as well as Guest.

Can't say as I've had problems, though. (At least not any that aren't attributable to #1 Son surfing !Free!Porn! sites using IE and an inadequate firewall.)

You know I put these up so anyone desperately Googling about will have someone who's found the same little problem.

You know that the string "!Free!Porn!" becomes very amusing when the ! is interpreted as a negation.

Also, some TWITWIT using the computer that I use at work has installed Gain products. Damn pop-up mongers. Assholes.

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