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Revision as of 02:45, 12 July 2005
Before checking the following issues, you might want to look at the official list of known issues for Firefox.
Please note that this is not the place to file your bug reports. To do this, first search the Firefox Bugs forum and post there, to ensure that your bug has not already been filed. If it hasn’t, you should then submit your bug to Mozilla's Bugzilla but, again, only after intensely searching through it first.
Installation
- Problems with upgrading Firefox, including broken extensions and themes.
- [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=240621
"The program must close to allow a previous installation attempt to complete. Please restart." loop]
User interface
- Firefox won't start up
- Firefox used to work, but now looks or acts strangely
- Alt-Enter to open a link a new tab won't work for Windows ME/98(SE)
- Firefox asks for a nonexistent master password
- Open File dialog has the OK button grayed out. Also: Open File dialog is behaving weirdly in some other way.
- Resizing oversize window
Extensions
- Getting older extensions to work with updated Firefox versions.
- Problems with uninstalling extensions.
Web features
- Problems with JavaScript.
- "Access to the port number given has been disabled for security reasons."
- "Firefox says always that I have x new mails but I don't!"
- "Firefox doesn't display ALT text! Why?" explanation Tools to alter standards compliance concerning ALT tabs: [1] [2]
- When I download a file Firefox launches a new blank window.
Plugins
- Problems with installing Java.
- Problems with installing Flash.
- Problems with viewing PDF files or using the Adobe Reader plugin.
- Problems with Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0.1 mousemove event on Linux .
- Problems with installing RealPlayer.
Problems with specific websites
- "Document contains no data" error occurs for some web pages
- Filenames are truncated when you download a file
- A website looks wrong in Firefox but works in a different browser
- Certain websites look like garbage
- Links to Local Pages Don't Work
- How to disable popups that pass internal blocker?
- How to disable bookmark this page popup?
- Your Linux distributor releases a patched FF but the FF website wants to force you to update
- You receive an error message going to an FTP site instead of a login
Versions older than 1.0
- Oddities installing more than one extension at a time (Firefox 0.8 only)
- The installer ate my files
- Click on a link shortcut or Favorites in Windows displays an error or opens two windows/tabs.
