Start Firefox (or Thunderbird) in Safe Mode


	Start Firefox (or Thunderbird) in Safe Mode

gigajosh

2-4-2008 5:39 AM

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firefox, troubleshooting

gigajosh says:

After a Firefox extension prevented me from starting up Firefox normally (the extension just kept on pounding the CPU and wouldn't let up) I solved the problem simply by starting Firefox in Safe Mode as described in the clip and disabling the extension. I then simply started Firefox up again normally. Bingo

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</P><P>For Firefox, one of these:
</p> <DL><DD><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <CODE>firefox -safe-mode</CODE>
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <CODE>"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode</CODE>
</LI></UL>
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<P>For Thunderbird, one of these:
</p> <DL><DD><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <CODE>thunderbird -safe-mode</CODE>
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <CODE>"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -safe-mode</CODE></LI></UL></DD></DL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/60BB9864-50E2-4615-987C-82E644CC4BEF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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