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CaptainMooseInc
03-09-2006, 07:16 PM
Alright. I'm determined to get Firefox to work properly on my computer once and for all. This thread will go on as long as people reply or until the problem is fixed. Then hopefully Google's spiders will pick up on it and a more detailed Firefox Troubleshoot cure will be out there for people with my problem.

Now let's play a game too just to keep spirits up.

After reading my problem and viewing the posted picture along with this initial post, reply with any suggestions and at the end put, "I think I can solve your problem in (insert number) posts". The next person below has to see if they can't do it in even less. :)

Now onto my problem. See picture below. That's the popup I get everytime I try to log into something that is secured that requires a username and password. I checked the folder properties and found out that the "Read-Only" box is CHECKED and GRAYED OUT. I can uncheck the box and hit the "Apply" button but IMMEDIATELY when I reopen the properties on the folder the "Read-Only" is GRAYED OUT and CHECKED again! I've got ZoneAlarm giving every and any permission possible. Now I'm starting to think my Windows is configured to write-protect every folder on the computer or something. Firefox will run alright other than that not having the SECURITY COMPONENT loaded! Yeah...not good IMHO. Now I'm certain even without it it's prolly still safer than IE.

I'm really driving to find a solution now beause IE7B2 eats SO MUCH RAM when it's open for extended periods of time.

-Jeff

Bok
03-09-2006, 07:34 PM
quick google search brought up this..

http://kb.mozillazine.org/SSL_is_disabled

Full google search

Google search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=firefox+%22could+not+initialize+the%22+%22security+component%22+&btnG=Google+Search)

Bok

CaptainMooseInc
03-09-2006, 08:58 PM
Okay, good start. Thanks Bok for the link. It's now saved in my favorites since nothing from there solved my problem.

Now I have some more gas for the fire. I think the problem is more internal rather than Firefox. You know that whole grayed out checkbox ordeal originally posted? Well I can't seem to get rid of it. Apparently you're supposed to have Simple Sharing enabled (which I do). So I unchecked the Simple sharing, close the window, reopened, rechecked and that SHOULD have solved my problem (and yes, it was done on admin cause there's only 1 acct on this computer and that is admin). Errr, wrong. So I'm gonna try and restart in safe mode and login to admin and do the same deal.

If it doesn't work I'm hoping someone will have an idea. Thanks for bearing with me.

-Jeff

IronBits
03-09-2006, 09:24 PM
So, I closed out Thunderbird, went into that user’s Thunderbird profile folder (http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit#profile) and moved out the cert8.db file.
That appears to have done the trick.

I got this error in Firefox. The same trick works in that too. Thanks for the tip!

If that's not the problem then try deleting/moving cert8.db, key3.db, and secmod.db, all files in your user profile. I'm really fuzzy on the details of what's in these files, but in my experience they're all generated on the fly when necessary, all often touched when I launch Mozilla and surf around a bit, and I believe they're all associated with the cert system. If the problem is caused by corruption of some file on your system, I would expect it to be one of those.

Woohoo! thank you muchly mate, removing the .db files and re-starting the browser has fixed the problem http://forums.mozillazine.org/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif No more swearing and her having to use Iexploder for ebay! http://forums.mozillazine.org/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

had the same problem and your advise (deleting the ".db files") did solve the problem. So thanks a lot!!!!!

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=272556&sid=5dfaf5ed5be5d448883d892d8528db09

What did I win??? :banana: :rotfl:

Shish
03-09-2006, 11:01 PM
A big sloopy kiss from the Moose :scared: :rotfl: :looney:

CaptainMooseInc
03-09-2006, 11:34 PM
alright i've got the solution now.

it's that read-only thing that was causing the problem. in case you have this problem in the future you MUST reboot in Safe Mode under Admin name. Even though I'm admin on either this fix doesn't work unless it's in safe mode. I went to the hidden Application Data folder and found my profile. Then I went through the whole process of removing that READ-ONLY ordeal.

Now I plan on just clicking the C: drive and setting it to remove it all for future reference and that may solve other yet unforseen problems. That will take all night so yeah that's a few days (not a weekend) away. :)

Now I'm having zero problems with Firefox and I can cutomize it how I want. Thanks everyone! Slowly but surely everything led me to a conclusion. I did the other things suggested to just to make sure there are no further problems.

-Jeff

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03-10-2006, 10:01 AM
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