Norton 360 2.0 Mistrusts Firefox 3/ Bookmarks Gone
Hi. My name is Randy Rooney and I am one of the bloggers here at NewsLink Briefs. I have a couple of things to share with you today that may help you with your blogging efforts.
But first of all I wanted to ask you . . . .Have you ever noticed that when you click on something and maybe change your mind and want to click on something else you can still do it? If you click on your second choice just one millionth of a second before the screeen disappears you will make it to your destination of choice. That’s pretty cool, isn’t it? It’s like a General Motors factory that is busy making your Chevrolet but just before they put the hubcaps on you change your mind and “BAM” here comes a Pontiac out the door.
Does GM still make Pontiacs? Are they still in business?
Alright here’s our main order of business. Have you ever noticed that if you use Firefox 3 and then you install Norton 360 2.0 your bookmarks all disappear?
And then your forward and backward buttons stop working?
Have you ever tried to use a browser without a forward or a backward button? It’s really difficult. And on top of that all your bookmarks are gone and you have no idea what happened to them!
Where did they Go?!!
Well here’s a solution to your problem. First you have to understand that Norton 360 2.0 thinks that Firefox 3 is the enemy. Apparently nobody at Symantecs bothered to tell it that most people love Firefox 3 and consider it one of the good guys.
So, anyway, here’s what you do. First select File in the top left part of your Firefox 3 browser. Then go down to exit and click on it. Next right click on a blank part of your Windows taskbar at the bottom of your screen. Select Task Manager. Now look under the Processes tab for firefox.exe and hit END PROCESS.
If there is no firefox.exe there just skip this part . Now right click your Start Button and hit Windows Explorer. Look at C:Program FilesMozilla FirefoxComponents .
Delete the file coFFPlgn.dll from this folder. If it doesn’t delete check firefox.exe to make sure it is gone.
Now check your bookmarks. Hello! They should be back. And here are your back and forward buttons too. If you find the little sucker keeps coming back check here in your lovely Symentac files.
Program files/common files/symantec shared/coshared/browser/2.6/coFFPlgn.dll
Sometimes you have to get back in the nest to zap the little critters for good.
So that’s it for now. I hope you have enjoyed our time together. Why don’t you grab a feed? You don’t want to miss some of the other bloggers who are active on this site. Some of them are total idiots.
You don’t want to miss that.
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