Fire Fox - gone bad?

[loads_of_fun]

earlyer to day i stated up FF and i went
to go to use a book mark and i was there
were all gone, same w/ the searth engins
and i could not get them back, so i tryed
a un-install/re-install but when i started it
up again i get my srarsh engins back but
at a very high cost, i could not book mark
any thing, it was like the theme function
was removed, plugins gone, menus are totaly
messed up, very ugly light/dark green "theme"
got put in place, i've tryed almost every think
i can think of, but to no avail

i'll post a screen shot so you can see what
i mean

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/7592/untitled1ml.th.png (http://img250.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled1ml.png)

[Neo]

Have you run a virus scan anytime recently?

ALso... You need to uninstall firefox completely (if you want to save your bookmarks, search for bookmarks.html on whatever drive firefox/windows is installed on -- copy it to your desktop for later use).

Make sure you don't have any viruses (you can use Panda's online scanner if you need to) and then make sure to get rid of any left over firefox stuff, like profile info and stuff. You will most likely need to reinstall your theme and any extensions you used...

That or you have a really bad virus, I'm not to sure.

-Neo

[loads_of_fun]

i had a virus, well actually i had 5, but
FF is still doing this, i'm gonna try some
other things, thx for yout help so far, if
you can think of any thing else that might
be causing FF to do this plz lemmie know

[Markpyro]

What version of windows do you have?
And has anything else happened lately that seems odd?

[pixels]

holy crap. is that 98?

could be the problem right there :|

[Neo]

Yeah.

If you goto reinstall Firefox, make sure to completely remove any firefox folders from your hard drive first. Do a clean fresh install.

-Neo

[loads_of_fun]

holy crap. is that 98?

could be the problem right there :|na, its Win ME

@NeoX and i'll do that

Edit: Doh, its still messed up

[pixels]

na, its Win ME
even worse.

[Basan]

na, its Win ME

Of all the Windows OS's this one is the one that gave me the larger amount of headaches when dealing with it. :mad:

[ChrisPatuzzo]

Maybe youve got an old version of firefox, as some of the earlier versions were buggy.

[frazz]

i had a virus, well actually i had 5, but
Hmm that might have been it. Get a firewall! Oh and completely uninstall all firefox or mozilla related things then reinstall.
5 viruses?!?! please.

[loads_of_fun]

even worse.w/e, but if you can find an OS that can
play Roller Coster Tycoon 1-3 w/ expo(s),
SW Battle Front II, SW Jeti Academy,
SW Jeti Out Cast, SW:Episode 1 Phantom
Racer, StarCraft w/ expo, AoE 1-3 w/ expos,
UT04,Quake 3 Arena, 4x4 EVO, Deus Ex:
Invisable War, Hot Wheels Velocity X, Theme
Hospital, Mall Tycoon, Rail Road Tycoon 1 & 2,
Monoply Tycoon, Sim Coaster, Sim Theme Park,
Motorcross Madness 1 & 2, Mid Town Madness
1 & 2, Monster Truck Madness 1 & 2, Need
For Speed 1-3, Lego Island 1 & 2, 3D Frog
Frenzy, and any and all games i might/will get
in the future, then i'll switch to that one, ok?


@ChrisPatuzzo i have the newest ver, so its
not that

@frazz i already tryed that, and i have ~100 MB
left on hdd, i can install any thing (too big)

[TimP]

w/e, but if you can find an OS that can
play Roller Coster Tycoon 1-3 w/ expo(s),
SW Battle Front II, SW Jeti Academy,
SW Jeti Out Cast, SW:Episode 1 Phantom
Racer, StarCraft w/ expo, AoE 1-3 w/ expos,
UT04,Quake 3 Arena, 4x4 EVO, Deus Ex:
Invisable War, Hot Wheels Velocity X, Theme
Hospital, Mall Tycoon, Rail Road Tycoon 1 & 2,
Monoply Tycoon, Sim Coaster, Sim Theme Park,
Motorcross Madness 1 & 2, Mid Town Madness
1 & 2, Monster Truck Madness 1 & 2, Need
For Speed 1-3, Lego Island 1 & 2, 3D Frog
Frenzy, and any and all games i might/will get
in the future, then i'll switch to that one, ok?

Do you know if any of those don't work on XP? I've played (or seen) a lot of those games on XP. Your part at the end about "and all games i might/will get in the future" won't hold up much longer because a lot of companies will simply stop supporting Windows 9x/ME.

[loads_of_fun]

Do you know if any of those don't work on XP? I've played (or seen) a lot of those games on XP. Your part at the end about "and all games i might/will get in the future" won't hold up much longer because a lot of companies will simply stop supporting Windows 9x/ME.i know but i can try, my mom wont let me
install XP on any on my comps, she thinks
its like evil or some thing

[xodkrm]

Windows is teh evil.

[Sphinx1337]

Windows is teh evil.
Very True.
If you want anything done just go home one day and do it. Installing windows only takes about 20min not counting formatting your hard drive.
But back to your question.
Go to download.com and find a good firwall. Then a spyware hunter (Ad-Aware works great for me) and some onboard virus scanner (I use AVG antivirus). Scan with both of these. Re-Install Firefox. Then install a good firewall (like zone alarm pro) so this doesn't happen again.

[EvilEggCracker]

i know but i can try, my mom wont let me
install XP on any on my comps, she thinks
its like evil or some thing

Download it anyway, unless she can tell the difference.

[loads_of_fun]

Download it anyway, unless she can tell the difference.she is like x4 times more computer
savvy that me, the writes progs for
comps, she notice in a half a hart beat,
and i aready have XP