On Jul 9, 3:24*pm, MowGreen <mowgr...@nowandzen.com> wrote:
> *From the sound of the add-ons it appears that you have IETab installed
> to access Windows Update via FF, is that correct ?
>
> Suggest you first open FF in Safe Mode via the Start Menu [ Mozilla
> Firefox (Safe Mode) ] to see if an add-on is causing the issue. In SM
> all add-ons are disabled. This has nothing to do with Windows XP Safe
> Mode, it just opens FF with no add-ons.
>
> Do you have a bunch of sites that provide RSS feeds, Richard ?
> I found that FF would freeze when first opening if there is 10 or more
> RSS feeds bookmarked. Since the FF 'community' didn't believe me, I
> deleted the RSS feeds and the issue went away. They still don't believe
> me <w>
>
> MowGreen
No RSS - I discovered a bunch of plugins like Microsoft DRM, Java
Platform, QuickTime and RealPlayer.
I don't know why those were there, so I disabled them. They have no
uninstall button.