its so annoying, it will randomly drop into work offline, and cannot be revived without a PC restart. I know its not the wireless connection, as when FF fails, IE will still work, googles for about an hour and tried all the fixes, the "stay online" addon, and changing the settings...

Any ideas?:rotz:

You running the latest version? Have you had the problem before?

You running the latest version? Have you had the problem before?

not had the problem before, I was running it on my old pc no probs, got a new pc and downloaded the latest versions (first thing I did was check for updates) and tried all the fixes I have found, to no avail :(

How rum..! I was going to suggest renaming / moving your firefox profile, therefore forcing FF in creating a new default one. But with a clean install it should be okay. Certainly appears to be a FF problem as IE still works, but seems odd that you need to restart the PC to get it going again. Surely restarting the app should be sufficient :confused:

How you installed any extensions? If so try running FF in 'safe mode', i.e. programs > firefox > firefox (safe mode) see if that helps.

Sounds like an extension issue to me.

Thanks for the advice, I have disabled all extensions, except for the "stay online" one (unofficial ap to stop it dropping into offline...) and still to no avail, its driving me mad! I can normally fix anything with computers, I have even gone into the firefox settings ("Here be Dragons!") and set it so if the connection drops, the browser doesn't go into offline mode, even thats not working.....

Any more ideas?

update: think I've eventually fixed it (after is dropping connection within ten mins every time I have used it today!) scanned the area, found neighbours router also running on channel 11, went downstairs to swmbo's pc, accessed the router, changed it to channel 5, and half an hour so far and no drop out! WOOT! anyone else who has this problem, try this fix

Why do you need a keep alive app in firefox with a router?

Surely you'd set this on the router, or increase the keep alive inactive period.

Glad it's sorted, but not sure why you were having the problem with FF and not IE - if it was a router issue :confused:

As above, have you got a 'keep alive' setting active on the router? With UK ADSL setups this should really be set to 0 or turned off completely, seeing as there's no model for charging by time for broadband here.

Steve

to answwer both of those (I hope!) the keep alive app in firefox was an attempt to fix, as the googling I'd done suggested firefox will immediatley drop into "work offline" mode if the wireless was interupted,(I didn't understand at the time why the wireless may drop, it wasn't the router, but the inteference) its an unofficial app that didn't work..

as for IE still working, I guess it doesn't automatically drop in to work offline like firefox when the connection drops....

I guess it wasn't really a router problem, as a firefox problem, but a router fix.... the neigbours same channel router was causing inteference, as soon as the connection dropped for half a second, firefox would disengage and not come back, changing the routers channel to illiminate this intefereance, has negated firefox's problem, as the wireless doesn't drop anymore....

We won't keep going on about it, as it's fixed now

But I've had similar issues to what you describe before, with router drop-outs and wireless connection drops but I've never seen Firefox do that before. That's what I find a bit weird. Otherwise I'd regularly find that when my 3G dongle drops out on the train, when going through tunnels

Steve