how to fix firefox?

Question

i was messing around with firefox's "about:config" because i was trying to do that hack thingy that ppl are talking about instead of faster fox and i think i may have messed something up. Is there anyway i can get only that back to normal? Without having to reinstall? I have more than one user on my comp because this is a family comp. thanks

the only thing i changed unknowning what it did was something above the cache size it was a string of something and i misread something and i thought it was the cache size so i put a 5 which would be default but it wasnt. when i realized that, i right clicked and pressed reset. is that a good idea?

im not sure if i really messed anything up because everything is running fine....but who knows everything could change by tomorrow.

Answer 1

http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_7.html

There you go

Answer 2

Well, you have a few options. Option number one, if you are using Windows XP you can use system restore to return your computer to a period before the changings. Unfortunately, it will affect all accounts on the computer. Options number two, create a new Firefox profile. If you are not familiar with Firefox profile, I have included a article from Mozilla's knowledge base to help:

1. "Profile folder" -- written by mozillazine.org (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile)

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Creating a new profile:

1. go to Start > Run > enter "firefox.exe -p" ( without the quotation marks) > [Enter]
2. there should only be one profile "Default."
3. click [New] to create a new profile and give it a name > [Enter] > click [Start]
4. this new profile has all the default settings but you have to install all the extensions and bookmarks again.

Important, in the future backup your profile before making any changes to the configuration. I recommend you use MozBackup (http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/)

Publisher's Description:

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.

It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It's easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup ...

Answer 3

Yeah..you messed things up. Delete firefox and reinstall it.

Answer 4

The easiest way I know is to uninstall and reinstall ff. backup your preferences folder so you will be able to import all your bookmarks and such when you reinstall.

Answer 5

Uninstall and reinstall then try again... and so on... and so on... and so on