These Things Matter to Me: In Your Spare Time: Starting Firefox in Safe Mode to troubleshoot problems with extensions and themes

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

In Your Spare Time: Starting Firefox in Safe Mode to troubleshoot problems with extensions and themes

Even though we are like elite Navy Seals with highly specialized skills, as sysadmins, we often get called upon to help civilians with mortal tasks. Like troubleshooting Firefox. Sometimes people get too crazy with the Firefox extensions and themes, and wonder why everything looks funny. To separate what's what, have them start Firefox up in "safe mode."

Windows

Use the Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode) ... shortcut in the Mozilla Firefox program folder on the Windows Start Menu. If you have accidentally deleted this shortcut, you can access Safe Mode by going to "Start -> Run" and entering (using Firefox as an example):

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode

Linux

On Linux, you can go to your Terminal and run:

/path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode

Mac OS X

On Mac OS X, it will be in:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -safe-mode

All via the Mozilla Zine SafeMode page.

TECHNORATI TAGS: firefox, browser, extensions, mozilla, sysadmin

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