oh dear!
... er ...
It's not so much what firefox/open source has against yahoo/mainstream as it is the other way around: everybody wants everybody to "do microsoft" to the extent that too many things out there will not work with anything other than said beast-from-across-town (yeah; an hour bus ride/20 minute drive to redmond). So much so that I have seen mentions made of alternative browsers/apps, even those "ported" specifically to windows, not working quite right on windows that work fine on other platforms. Which versions of Firefox and yahoo messenger are you running?
Let's develop a base-line from which to start troubleshooting.
Are you both running xp with the latest service packs? Are you running "home" or "professional"? Since you've been able to do stuff, I will just assume that there is enough RAM.
Have your puters been defragged lately? Has your system been scanned for malware? (My favorite four, of course: adaware, spybot, spywareblaster, avg ... which may, in fact, be conflicting with mcaffee/norton/ms.) How many other apps start up when windows starts? Do they really need to be running? Do you know why they are running? Would it really be that much of a time-sink for them to be started only when you want to use them? For that matter, how many of those apps that start when xp starts do the same thing? (aim/icq/yahoo; avg/norton/mcaffee; firewall(s) - with the firewall built in to the "security center", as well as the other "features" of the security center, there could be conflicts (of course there are; you are "expected"/"encouraged" to use the ms "solution") when using other apps that do the same thing.)
river said:
But now Firfox is giving me its own unique set of headaches. I have some email messages in my inbox at Yahoo that it just refuses to open. Every time I try to open them Firefox crashes completely
River: are you able to read other mail in your inbox? Might it be that those emails contain formatting that Firefox chokes on? Do you get any sort of error message? Do you have Java enabled in Firefox? (microsoft has always used it's own unique "flavor" of java.)
spicybrown said:
You're not the only one River. My Yahoo Messenger crashed for some uknown reason when I had I E. Now my system experiences a complete "system shutdown" with Firefox. Completely freezing my notebook to the point where I can't even click start to "shutdown then restart". I have to unplug the wall unit just to get it to shut down. I would like answers too, as this is getting on my last nerve.
Oh dear! Do you get that "not properly shutdown" message when you restart? (At least once, restart and shut down normally.) When it freezes on you, will it respond to the keyboard enough for the "three finger salute" - ctrl-alt-delete? Were you getting the shutdown problems with IE? That first yahoo crash suggests that there might have been something going on before.
And again, Brother Slowly to the rescue!! Good on you to hunt that question up and post the link for it! From that, it looks more like an issue of yahoo not being all that friendly ... which actually accords with the problems I keep running into whenever I do install/launch the messenger.
(...hmmmm ....
maybe I should just accept that there are just too many issues with that mess to bother attempting to respond to windows issues anymore. It has always been a buggy platform with every "updrade"/"update" introducing it's own set of problems. ... hmmm ....
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