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Old March 3rd 12, 06:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:16:14 +0100, Etal
wrote:

who where wrote:

Etal wrote:

pedro wrote:

As both the FF and Opera versions are "obsolete" they also
tend to attract nothing but sneers . I have a standing
query in the FF forum about how to DELETE a parameter
which was inserted into the about:config page in 2.0.0.20
with a typo, and no responses.



Open 'about:config'. Select the offending preference-entry
in the list. In the context-menu (pulled up by
right-clicking) select 'Reset'. Quit and then relaunch
Firefox and verify that the entry have disappeared from the
'about:config' preferences-list.


It was causing repeated lockups. A complete
remove/reg-clean/reinstall removed the corrupted key, although
the lockups remain. One of the main reasons I am looking at
Opera ...


Just having the errant preference entry present caused the
lockups?, or trying to remove it?


After the config editing stuff-up, the previous occasional lockup
became decidedly more frequent, to the point where it ceased to be an
annoyance and became a real PITA. Sometimes it would even lock up or
error on startup, as soon as the (blank) startup page appeared.

If Firefox locked up so you couldn't use 'about:config' to remove
the entry, know that settings you modify and_or add via the
'about:config' interface is saved in a file, [prefs.js], located
in Firefox's profile folder.
Search you /HardDisk/ for 'prefs.js' and open it in a plain-text
editor (Notepad) and delete the offending entry. Or simple rename
[prefs.js] to something else and you would be back to all
default settings.


For some reason, I couldn't delete the the entry. It was one that was
there by default, to which I had apparently added an invalid value
(i.e. 20 to a binary ...). I could neither change nor delete it.

So, a full reinstall was probably overkill, but there was perhaps
other issues causing the lockup that doing that cleared up.


There were other lockup issues prior (as mentioned above). The
cleanout (not just remove)/reinstall got rid of the bad-edit-effect
issues but the original ones are still there after the reinstallation.

So really the matter of editing config is now history, it is just an
example of how 98 users are at best ignored in these forums.