Comments on: New Settings, what?

By: Kerrie

Kerrie — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:44:36 +0000

when did you write this! I have OS 10.4.11

By: Unpleasant

Unpleasant — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:57:56 +0000

I’m starting to wonder if I’d be happier if I could see that dialog. Since going to 10.4.9 this morning, Firefox has been having very odd display issues. Frankly, it’s displaying sites about the way IE 3 used to, and I’m wondering if I need to do something to tell it to allow external CSS…

By: Rotis

Rotis — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:50:33 +0000

I had this window several times under Firefox 1.5 and all MacOSX 10.4.x. Since the upgrade to FF 2.0 I have never seen it again. Don’t know what’s the cause. In any case I clicked “Use original settings”.

By: Michael Lefevre

Michael Lefevre — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:08:26 +0000

Google finds an answer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301084

Apparently you would have clicked an earlier dialog after a crash, telling the OS to try relaunching the app (Firefox) with some default settings instead of your own settings.

I’m on Windows, but if Mac is similar then Firefox doesn’t store many settings with the OS anyway, it uses its own prefs file.

By: Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:18:28 +0000

Woo. Shiny new Mac OS 10.4.9. Haven’t tried it yet but will do so soon But not without my backup…

Hope you’ll find out what caused this strange window.

By: beltzner

beltzner — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:20:19 +0000

Yes, I have some thoughts:
* tell us what version you’re using,
* search LXR (or MXR, I guess) to see if that string exists in our codebase (it doesn’t),
* don’t use terms like “raped”, they’re pretty offensive.