This post may not seem like it's related to Software Development, but if you rely on a working browser to get your job done, problems with them or small features in them, can really impact your productivity. Here's a solution the problem I was having.
A few weeks ago, Firefox was frequently crashing on me. The culprit seemed to be either the Yahoo! toolbar or Yahoo! Mail. After searching around, I removed a .dll associated with the Yahoo! toolbar, but that didn't work. I then completely removed the Yahoo! toolbar, but that still didn't work. Finally the folks at Firefox put out a new update and I thought that may address the issue, but no still luck. It was now easy to find friends experiencing the same problem and tons of questions on Yahoo! Anwsers about this.
The problem was clearly related to Yahoo! Mail's web UI now and Firefox would crash whenever I logged out or closed the tab that Yahoo! Mail was in. After living with this for a while, things got worse, my Firefox download dialog stopped showing entries. After searching for a solution to that issue, I found a link on Mozilla's site that recommended removing mimeTypes.rdf file used by Firefox. That didn't solve the problem. I then found another link that recommended deleting Firefox's downloads.rdf file. Finally after exiting Firefox, deleting both of these .rdf files and restarting firefox, I no longer am having issues with Firefox and Yahoo! Mail.
Here's the location of the .rdf files on my machine:
c:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/eak5tu9x.default/downloads.rdf
c:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/eak5tu9x.default/mimeTypes.rdf
I hope this helps someone else out there.
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