{"id":11304,"date":"2008-06-19T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2008-06-19T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:29:07","slug":"fixing-firefox-with-safe-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/19\/fixing-firefox-with-safe-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Firefox with safe mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is something useful I learned today.\u00a0 Until recently I’ve been using Firefox 3 beta 5.\u00a0 It was working fine for me after I found all replacements and upgrades for all the extensions that I need.\u00a0 One of those extensions was CompactMenu (not giving a link for now).\u00a0 This extension replaces the whole main menu (File, Edit, View, etc) with a single icon.\u00a0 You can place this icon anywhere on your toolbars and when you click it, you’ll get a drop down with your main menu items.\u00a0 Huge space saver.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I upgraded my Firefox to the latest and greatest<\/a> stable version 3.\u00a0 The update came as an official package from Fedora updates.\u00a0 However, once I fired up the new Firefox, it notified me that CompactMenu was not compatible with this version and so it was disabled.\u00a0 Can you guess where I ended up?<\/p>\n

Exactly.\u00a0 No menu and no way to get to the menu.\u00a0 I tried uninstalling the extension, intalling another version of it, unintalling it again, cleaning up options in about:config, customizing the toolbars, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 Nothing worked.\u00a0 And so I Googled.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that Firefox has something called a “safe mode<\/a>“.\u00a0 All you need to do to get to it is start firefox with “–safe-mode<\/em>” parameter.\u00a0 Once it comes up, you’ll see the window as on the screenshot above.\u00a0 One of the optios is “Reset toolbars and controls<\/em>“.\u00a0 It works wonders.\u00a0 I got all the toolbars to their default state, and with View -> Toolbars -> Customize<\/em> I could easily get them to the state I want.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here is something useful I learned today.\u00a0 Until recently I’ve been using Firefox 3 beta 5.\u00a0 It was working fine for me after I found all replacements and upgrades for all the extensions that I need.\u00a0 One of those extensions was CompactMenu (not giving a link for now).\u00a0 This extension replaces the whole main menu … Continue reading Fixing Firefox with safe mode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1132,2302,1563,74,989],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-extensions","tag-firefox","tag-recovery","tag-tips","tag-troubleshooting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7967,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/27\/updated-mozilla-firefox-to-10pr\/","url_meta":{"origin":11304,"position":0},"title":"Updated Mozilla Firefox to 1.0PR","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I have updated my Mozilla Firefox to version 1.0PR. 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