Comments on: Firefox hanging on startup today?

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:46:26 +0000

Same thing here. Thanks for the tip.

By: Oliver Sturm

Oliver Sturm — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:37:50 +0000

Great info, thanks for that. I just had the same problem.

Mike: There’s another way to switch off the SwitchProxy notification. Just enter “about:config” in the URL edit field, then enter “switch” in the Filter field. Find the “switchproxy.update.notify” setting and set it to “false” (just double-clicking it will do).

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:58:37 +0000

My Firefox has been seriously hanging on startup the last two days (02/17 and 02/18), and this was the problem. Thanks. Incidentally, to get to the point where you can disable the update notifications on Windows XP: disable your NIC, open Firefox, turn off update notifications in SwitchProxy, and reenable your NIC.

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:37:37 +0000

Hello there, if you check your ref log you will see why i am here lol, this was the issue it was happening today to me (Jan 31/05!) thanks for the info -now fox purrs as it should.

Yes Jimbo you aught to fix that -i just took out extension one by one trying to sort it out. grrrrr..