Firefox Has Hijacked My Computer

After deleting firefox from my computer as I reported yesterday, I had the strangest phenomenon - one reported by thousands of other users of Outlook 2007 according to the Google search that I did for the issue.

It seems that after deleting firefox that none of my email links would work. Each one I clicked on would say "General URL Failure." It would show the link - which I could not copy - and then say "Application Not Found."

Finally, I decided to reverse the only major thing I had done and reinstall firefox.

I was careful to deselect firefox as my default browser and I deselected having it launch.

When I clicked on a link in Outlook, guess what happened? It opened - but it opened in firefox.

Get this. Firefox is not my default or even my preferred browser (right now Safari is), yet Outlook will only open links in firefox. 

Also, status updates on facebook and Linked In did not post until I reinstalled firefox.

Firefox has hijacked my computer. I want it back!!

 

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20 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • September 27 2011 02:38AM

What Is Going On With The Browsers?

I've already deep-sixed Firefox today (again) because of sluggish behavior and crashes on all sites, including AR.

Now IE which was declared to be AR compatible by Niki won't post without an error message. Write the post (with or without a photo), add the title, and submit. Then you get the lovely red error message: "You need to enter a title and an entry for this blog post." Of course this is totally in error because there was a title and post before it was erased by IE. Sometimes you can recover what you wrote and sometimes not. Bottom line, forget IE9 for posting. Forget earlier versions period.

So now on to Chrome. It works well but doesn't remember previously used titles like Firefox. Just takes more keystrokes to make it work. I had forgotten how it hates videos. Post a video and there is a big blank where it is supposed to be. Refresh by clicking on your blog page and it miraculously shows up. ANother, unnecessary step to to post.

I guess I'll try Opera and Safari.

Can AR get its act together with any of the browsers? This is taking the edge off of blogging and commenting.

 

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For more information on my coaching and educational programs and services, visit my website stevehoffacker.com, or go to my other bloghomesalesinsights.com for additional sales tips, insights, and commentary. Listen to my free podcast messages at Steve Hoffacker's Happenings.

Steve Hoffacker - Consultant, Coach, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Motivator, Teacher, & Strategist - for Realtors, Real Estate Sales Professionals, Home Builders, New Home Salespeople, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Independent Sales Representatives.

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14 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • August 22 2011 11:22PM

What's Up With The Browsers?

What a rough few days this has been trying to get online, stay online, and post online.

Firefox has been very temperamental recently so I went looking for a better solution. I migrated all my sites to IE8, but I had issues with speed and cut and paste for blogs.

So, I tried Google Chrome - again - and probably for the last time. It is slow, quirky, inadequate on history, and not something I like, although the graphics are good.

I tried Safari. It was OK but designed for the Apple. It wouldn't load or access some of the sites I tried to visit.

So, back to Firefox even though it is still crashing multiple times a day - including 3 times in less than an hour on Saturday.

Today, it has trouble opening and staying open. I turned my back on it about an hour again after it refuses to open at all.

So, I'm left with IE8. Not where I wanted to be, and I don't like the cut and paste, but it does seem to be a stable platform.

I am still open to ideas but I'm growing weary of non-responsive browsers. Why isn't there something better out there than these 4?

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For more information on my coaching and educational programs and services, visit my website stevehoffacker.com, or go to my other blog homesalesinsights.comfor additional sales tips, insights, and commentary. Listen to my free podcast messages at Steve Hoffacker's Happenings.

Steve Hoffacker- Consultant, Coach, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Motivator, Teacher, & Strategist - for Realtors, Real Estate Sales Professionals, Home Builders, New Home Salespeople, Entreprenuers, Small Business Owners, and Independent Sales Representatives.

© Steve Hoffacker, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

16 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • June 17 2010 02:31PM