I just downloaded Firefox...need a little help

[Not_Giving_Up]

I can't play games at a site that I always play at, and it's driving me nuts. It tells me that a plug in is missing, Sun Java. I tell it to download, it acts like it does, then Windows Installer pops up and says the file does not exist. WTF????


Other than that, I'm loving it. The pages are loading much faster!

[qnr]

1. Have you exited and restarted Firefox? n/t

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. Many times

[qnr]

7. Figured you had, just wanted that out in the open-since it is important :)

[Moloch]

2. I had the same problem.

I had to remove FireFox and download it again with the Java crap in it.

[w4rma]

3. Go to these two sites for Flash/Shockwave & Sun's Java Runtime Environment

http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

[SHRED]

4. I prefer

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

with

http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

[miss_kitty]

6. Sometimes you have to uninstall and reinstall

Some versions won't do plugins if the download came in a zipped file.

Save the program to your desktop and install that way. You should always download the program first, then install it, as opposed to installing directly from online.

Do you have a high speed connection? because if you do, the following tweak will make your pages load faster still!

"Open Firefox.
Type "about:config" in the address bar (no quotation marks).
Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:

network.http.max-connections: 48 (24)

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24 (8)

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12 (4)

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6 (2)

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32 (4)

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".

Close Firefox and enjoy the faster browsing."


Figures in parentheses are default values. ignore

[Not_Giving_Up]

9. I wish I had a high speed connection

I am stuck on slow ass dial up though. I'm downloading java from the firefox homepage, hopefully it will work this time.

[Bluebear]

10. COOL tweak!

Thanks!

[miss_kitty]

11. I picked it up here a few weeks ago

I believe the default settings are for dialup...

[miss_kitty]

8. Also, here is a place that is helpful

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38&sid=587a0a620e6659e7f3df515c74f15993

questions get answered pretty fast here.

[mr blur]

12. You have to use Sun Java,

not the Java that Microcrap IE uses. Sorry if this is obvious, I remember missing it way back when I switched to Firefox