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Fixing Firefox Problem – Firefox is already running but is not responding

James Netherton — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:02:47 +0000

If you start Firefox and you’re presented with the message “Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system” don’t panic!

I found the simple solution was to start Firefox via the profile manager which prevented the message from showing up again. To start Firefox from the profile manager simply execute the command below and choose your default browsing profile.

firefox -profilemanager

Disabling the Firefox smart location bar

James Netherton — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:06:00 +0000

I’ve finally upgraded to Firefox 3, and after 10 minutes, I’ve found that I can’t live with the "awesome" smart location bar.

Here’s how to disable it:

1. Navigate to about:config and continue past the warning message

2. Search for the setting browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped and change its value to true

3. Restart Firefox

Importing Firefox RSS bookmarks into Google Reader

James Netherton — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:03:00 +0000

My collection of bookmarked RSS feeds is getting larger and larger. Up until now, I’ve been using Firefox as my RSS reader and everything integrates nicely into the bookmarks toolbar.

Now that the collection of bookmarks has grown, Firefox is becoming a pain to maintain everything. Plus, I have a different collection of bookmarked feeds on my work PC and my home PC.

I’ve decided to make the jump over to Google reader. Google reader has an import feature that requires a OMPL file. Firefox only allows you to export bookmarks to an HTML file. Enter this plugin:

http://www.efinke.com/addons/opml-support/

It adds an option to export Firefox bookmarks to OMPL format. I’ve now imported everything into Google reader. I’m not sure how long I’ll stick with it though, I may check out some of the other online RSS readers.