FireFox stopped working?!?!

[skuliaxe]

That's basically what's wrong...
FireFox can't connect to the internet.

Internet Explorer works fine. Messengers and Bittorent also.
I haven't changed anything in FireFox in the last weeks except for a little patch (to speed up browsing). But I did that 2 weeks ago... and it worked fine.

I'm not using any proxies.

Any Ideas?
Don't leave me with IE
Thanks.

[Guy]

1) Use Mozbackup to backup your bookmarks and settings.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

2) Uninstall Firefox.

3) Delete this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username&\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

4) Download Firefox using IE (i know its painful... but it'll only be for a minute, i promise)

5) Reinstall Firefox

6) Start up Firefox (don't import anything) and close it (this is to create a new profile)

6) Use MozBackup to restore your profile settings

For increasing your speed, check out how to do it manually with this guide:
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html

[skuliaxe]

I did a backup... but then I couldn't restore my
"Mozilla 1.7.5 - 15.12.2004.pcv" file. Don't know why. Anyway, Firefox didn't work then with default settings (like the first time I used the new FireFox 1.0 a few weeks ago, when it came out.)

Luckely i could do "undo delete" on the FireFox folder in the Application data folder...that or Restore in RecycleBin...

I just can't figure out what it could be....I was surfing when it first died

[Guy]

Hmmm, well if mozbackup doesn't want to play nice you can backup your bookmarks the old fashion way. In that folder I pointed out to earlier in application data, if you go into the firefox folder and open up the default profile you'll see a file called bookmark. Just make a copy of that to dump back into the new profile folder later. Make sure you're not running firefox when you're restoring your bookmarks. Here's a guide on performing a clean install and recovering your old profile settings
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=158083

So even with a new install and a new profile it doesn't work? Did you download the official version from the site or one of the trunk builds from the ftp/forums?

Perhaps if you posted on the mozilla forums there might be some more people that experienced this and can give you some more insight.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

[RoaringOne]

What kind of error are you getting? Can you be more specific?

[skuliaxe]

Okeeeey... problem solved.
I have no freaking idea why, but it seems that I do need to have a sertain proxy. It wasn't like that before. My school probably changed the settings without telling people (I use an ADSL line through my school).

Thanks anyways people

**edit**
Even stranger that IE worked longer without proxy settings

[Guy]

schools and their **** proxies *shakes fist