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Mozilla Weirdness

Sunday, March 13th, 2005 at 11:23 AM Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

I did a mass clean up of temp files and other garbage using CCleaner. It worked well. I hate to lose my cookies [insert joke here], but it was necessary. But then when I opened my blog admin page in Mozilla, instead of the MovableType logo, I got a sideways picture of a girl in a nightgown and my text boxes were narrow. I panicked without thinking and submitted a trouble ticket.

Then I wake up and open the same page in Maxthon. Everything is normal. Whewwwww. Then Firefox. Normal. Mass relief ensues. So I uninstall and reinstall Mozilla. No change. I don’t delete my Mozilla folders, which is where the problem lives. So I say, “To heck with Mozilla. Time to go to T-bird and use it with Firefox.”

I uninstall and re-install T-bird so it would automatically import my stuff over. When I run it, it doesn’t import. Stay cool, calm, and collected. I uninstall yet again and delete every Thunderbird mention I can find in the Documents and Settings folders. Re-install and it imports everything from Mozilla like a charm—emails, folders, bookmarks, filters… everything.

Meanwhile, I find the Mozilla problem odd. So I look around and reload pages to no avail. The Google logo is replaced with a stretched out Firefox logo. Several pages have broken graphics links. For the heck of it, I try clearing the cache again. It works. I’ve never seen this happen before. But my digression leads to switching to T-Bird, so it’s worth the adventure.