FIREFOX & YAHOO EMAIL PROBLEMS
This is not a question but a potential solution, I've already solved my own problem.
I am currently running Firefox 15 with Win XP Pro and SP3. The reason I’m running 15 is, I don’t want all the reported problems with the upgrades that others keep reporting on Firefox and other forums and I don’t have any. I monitored the upgrade problems with FF 9 up to 12 and waited until the increasing complaints subsided with 15 and upgraded manually.
I see quite a few people reporting problems with Firefox and Yahoo email. I see the same tips, delete CACHE and COOKIES and the same responses – IT ISN’T WORKING.
Deleting every cookie is like burning down the barn to get rid of the rats when you can selectively delete only the cookie(s) for each Yahoo email account under TOOLS/OPTIONS/PRIVACY/SHOW COOKIES. This leaves the rest intact, preventing having to resign into everything else with saved passwords.
Yahoo, like Firefox, is constantly screwing with its website. They recently changed the email home page last fall to where you had to load the folders separately with a second page command, this was Yahoo's redesign stupidity, no fault of Firefox. I got tired of Yahoo’s constant problems and set up all new Gmail accounts. They just recently updated the email home a few weeks ago back to the original format where the folders loaded on the home page with the INBOX and made an announcement to the fact.
Last week, the home page suddenly became completely non-responsive, loading any button into the address bar but not launching them. There was no access to the folders, settings, compose etc. and every account was back to their old lavender themes I had changed to blue. This lasted for a little over a week, sending me back to Gmail accounts. I never had any problems with Yahoo email with Google Chrome or Opera but rarely use them.
I deleted the CACHE and COOKIES and, like everyone else – no luck. Rummaging through the OPTIONS and settings, I noticed the REMEMBER MY DOWNLOAD AND BROWSING HISTORY checked. I keep this OFF, saving useless junk on my hard drive, my CACHE files are on a flash drive. I unchecked this and then went and deleted BROWSING AND DOWNLOAD HISTORY with the CACHE files and all the Yahoo email accounts were working again - go figure.
You might try deleting the BROWSING AND DOWNLOAD HISTORY next time and see if this helps any problems.
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Another reason for running FF 15 - I'm not 100% convinced that newer versions of Firefox are 100% compatible with older Win. OS like XP.
The reason I'm running XP is I didn't want the headaches Win. Vista caused, resulting in people reinstalling XP on brand new machines. Now that Windoze (no misspelling) 8 is out, I see reports of people reinstalling Windows 7. [WINDOWS 7 ]
There is no idea what the real cause to a lot of these reported problems are everywhere. I only know I don't have any - if it it ain't broke, I ain't fixing it.
I understand you may be concerned in general about updates, but Firefox 15 was released in August 2012 and has numerous security flaws, as Mozilla discloses after each new release.
It's really a bad idea to use such an old Firefox on the web, as even trusted websites can be the source of compromised ads or documents.
You can download Firefox 28 here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
And if you want to try it out first and see whether it's stable on your system, you can use the "portable" version (has separate settings and bookmarks) from here: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/
You need to update to Firefox 28, for multiple reasons:
15 is not supported on Yahoo Mail, you need to be running a more modern version of Firefox.
28 works perfectly fine on XP with SP3, in fact it's much faster and uses far less resources than 15.
Finally, 15 is horribly insecure as dozen of security holes have been fixed in recent versions. You should always update your software if for that reason alone.
I usually get around to updating plugins, although I can't ever remember having a problem with the old ones.
As a matter of fact, I think this whole Yahoo email mess started right after updating JAVA and ADOBE plugins, should have left well enough alone. Typically before updating anything, I'll check the Internet and see if there are other reported problems.
After major installs and updates, I usually defrag to get the disk back in order. Deleting CACHE files on a hard drive every time you turn around leaves the drive in a mess to get further fragmented. Most stock defrag program may "compact" the files first, taking forever to defrag. programs like Auslogics, defrags only and can clean up a HD in a sew seconds when maintained.
This doesn't have anything to do with Java, Yahoo implemented a new feature in their page that breaks it for all versions of Firefox that are out of date, you need to update to be able to use Yahoo. You also need to just update in general, it's a very poor practice to not update.
Defrag has nothing to do with this either....
Tyler,
"15 is not supported on Yahoo Mail, you need to be running a more modern version of Firefox."
Apparently you misread what I wrote or did not read it at all. Yahoo email is working fine and page loads with it are around one second or less. A fragment hard drive can get so cluttered up that older drives may not always completely load a program like a browser or others, a problem I've had on rare occasions with other programs and solved by defragging.
The problem with Yahoo is simple, we've narrowed down exactly what it is and it isn't to defrag your hard drive, it's to update Firefox. We know this. Please update your Firefox to 28.
Also "A fragment hard drive can get so cluttered up that older drives may not always completely load a program like a browser or others, a problem I've had on rare occasions with other programs and solved by defragging. " is a totally wrong and incorrect response. But since you leave your software 13 versions behind you obviously aren't very well versed in technical issues.
jscher2000
I'm not having any security problems or any other problems so there is not much anyone can do to suggest solutions to problems I'm not having and I suggest you both might want to spend more time in the forums with those who are.
Speaking of things that don't work, I wish I have a nickle for every suggestion on these forums to the Yahoo email problem about deleting CACHE and COOKIES that did not work - I'd be rich
I'm locking this thread. Also, please don't go around the SUMO forums and tell users not to upgrade, as that is horrible advice. Thanks!