FIREFOX..browser conflict? You able to fix it? I did GoBack, fixed IE

[oscar111]

I had horrible conflict when i installed firefox like Kim Komando said to. IE went down and would not do anything.

Of course, you need IE toget Windows security updates. FF's supposed ability to step aside for updates, would not come into existence... since IE was dead.

I fixed it all by Go Back... and just leaving FF in its unopened file.

GoBack is now called System Restore, BTW.

ONE...Anyone here know a way to use FF without ending the IE browser?

TWO.. is Kim Komando's advice any good? I notice she speaks well of certain corporations that are pretty bad. OTOH, she condems some bad ones also.Is she an inscrutable mixed case?

[ghostsofgiants]

1. There should be no problems running both Firefox and IE on the same system

They're two separate programs, there should be no conflict at all aside from which one will be the system's default browser. (Which would not affect the operation of the other browser.)

I don't know who Kim Komando is, but I use Firefox and, as I stated in another thread last night, wouldn't touch IE with a fifty foot nerd pole.

[oscar111]

2. thanks! "browser conflict" is a common term, so it must happen a lot

I recall hearing it long ago, before i had any experience with such.

so, i think it is a common enough event to warrant a phrase unto itself.

Kim is host of a big radio show on cprs. Saturday morning about nine am or ten am. weekly.

Do you have IE on your cpr, in an inactive state? How do you fetch updates with it? Use the tab in FF?

Do you ever have both browsers active at once?

[henslee]

4. I cant imagine problems starting unless you try and delete IE or some IE

cookies or kernels or any other crap. I sometimes encounter websites that do not work with Ffox, so i switch over to IE. Works fine.

[KitchenWitch]

8. You can't delete IE because it is enmeshed within the operating system

I have Firefox running on a Windoze box and have never never never had a problem with Firefox. I NEVER use IE anymore.

[oscar111]

3. kick

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[oscar111]

5. kick

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[elvisbear]

6. Where can I find the Kim Komando instructions for installing

Firefox? I could not find them on her site.

[oscar111]

7. i never looked for KK instructions

i just followed the ones that came with FF

i think they were simple, just click where indicated.

after turning off all programs you can

but like i said, watch out .. my IE went dead after i used FF.. might have been dead as soon as i installed it, dont know.

I fixed it all in four days of work, by doing the thing called system restore.. look in help center button of your cpr. Used to be called GoBack. Other paths to get to SYS RESTORE exist on my cpr, likely yours too.

[RoyGBiv]

9. There's some confusion here ...

First, System Restore has never been called "GoBack." GoBack, by the Norton company I think, is an independent software package that takes the place of System Restore in much the same way one of Norton's other programs takes the place of the Trash Bin. If System Restore was once called GoBack on your system but is no longer, it is because GoBack has been removed or otherwise disabled.

Second, Firefox doesn't touch anything associated with Internet Explorer. The only thing it can "take over" is as the default browser, which is a Windows system-wide setting. What that means, simply, is that when you open .html (etc.) links on your desktop, in other programs, etc., your system will load Firefox. When first starting FF after installing, it tells you it is not the default browser and asks if you would like to make it the default. Answering "yes" would be preferred if you plan on using Firefox, but by answering "yes" this does not mean you can't continue to use IE whenever you wish. Also, this does nothing to the Windows update features.

Third, "Browser Conflict" is typically an error messages associated with hitting a website that is constructed to detect what browser you are using and telling you that you can't view the website because you're not using the one it wants you to use. (People on AOL get this a lot when trying to use AOL's browser.) In other words, some sites are set up with elements that don't work in Firefox or other browsers, usually sites with ActiveX controls (games, spyware, malware) or in rare cases sites that have no good reason for needing you to use IE but do the browser check thing anyway. The website itself is telling you there is a browser conflict, and it will tell you this inside of Firefox (or Opera, or whatever browser you're using that isn't IE). There are ways around this via extensions for Firefox that allow you to open certain pages in IE that require it or an extension to allow you to fake a report of what browser you are using to remote websites.

Now, you said "IE went down and would not do anything." Be more descriptive of the problem. The way this reads, you had FF installed and for some reason tried to load IE, but it wouldn't even start. Is that the case? If so, where does the "browser conflict" thing come into play? Describe exactly what you were doing that lead you to believe IE was disabled.

[henslee]

10. Very instructive, thanks.