Warning: Firefox 1.0 PR fucked up my OS
 

spent 4 hours talking to tech support before someone that knew shit from shinola could tell me how the fuck to get to a dos prompt and able access the hard drive...

upgrade your windows 95
that might fix it

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

WinXPPro

f8

How dumb do you got to be to screw up your whole pc with a browser?

anyways... it corrupted my hal.dll

just a warning before trying it...

Safe mode didn't work either...

He browsed his own drive and deleted stuff by mistake?

you run norton?

yep...

that sounds about right
what was the solution that support gave you?

never had any problems with Firefox

have you tried getting assistance from their forum support?

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

hope you get it all fixed, Firefox is the best browser out there

had to change some settings in my bios to change the raid controller to ata so that the windows xp recovery console would find my harddrive... the drivers on floppy didn't work....

then finally got the dos prompt and had to rebuild the bootcfg... like bootcfg /rebuild

that was pretty much it... but it was a bitch to finally get access to my harddrive in dos... through 5 tech support peeps i had to go through all they could suggest was format the fucking harddrive and reinstall xp... finally got a tech that knew his shit...

went back to 0.9.3... not gonna try the new one until a later version...


no one else has had trouble?

Never had an issue with it myself glad you got it resolved though...

yeah, theres usually one at each company
lucky for you he was working when you called
the only thing i can suggest to avoid this in the future is get a copy of vmare and run all your apps inside of that. a min install of xp plus vmware can be a life saver plus it makes life easier when doing a full backup

http://www.vmware.com/

?

yeah, its basicly an application that lets you install different Os' within a os.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/support/vmware/

Cool, thanks bra'

I'll check it out...