startup

bgo · Post by **bgo** » January 17th, 2004, 11:21 am

I'm looking for info on how to keep the Firebird browser page from starting upon intial booting of the system. I have opened the msconfig startup screen and unchecked the Firebird box, but it still opens when the system boots.

Using Win 98SE

Thanks

mai9 · Post by **mai9** » January 17th, 2004, 12:40 pm

are you saying that firebird is opened at start-up?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » January 17th, 2004, 1:14 pm

Yes. The Firebird opens with a blank page at bootup and without connection to my dialup ISP. When I go ahead and connect to my ISP, my homepage (set for Google) comes up.

Thanks

mai9 · Post by **mai9** » January 18th, 2004, 2:05 am

maybe you should check what your windows does at startup?

Quintin Riis · Post by **Quintin Riis** » January 18th, 2004, 2:47 am

Look in startup directory?

No idea where it's at on 9x, but it should have shortcuts under Start > Programs > Startup.

IGAU · Post by **IGAU** » January 18th, 2004, 2:52 am

If that fails, Start > Run > "Msconfig" and look for a box to uncheck.

bgo · Post by **bgo** » January 18th, 2004, 2:27 pm

I've gone through the start/run/msconfig/startup and unchecked the appropriate box. If I close all that out and go back to it without rebooting, the box is still unchecked. But after I reboot firebird starts up again automatically. So I go back to the the startup screen and the Firebird box is checked for startup.

Thanks for the responses

jbs3645 · Post by **jbs3645** » January 18th, 2004, 4:53 pm

I use win98se and have never had that problem. try start, programs, startup and see what is in there. Keep us posted.

bgo · Post by **bgo** » January 18th, 2004, 6:18 pm

Followed your suggestion. Firebird was in there, deleted it and solved the problem. Thanks a lot.

On another issue. My hourglass and cursor keeps blinking during a download, but only with my Mozilla/Firebird browser. Is this common?

Thanks

Quintin Riis · Post by **Quintin Riis** » January 19th, 2004, 8:36 am

What sort of hardware do you have?

I have no idea why this would happen, unless you have an insanely slow machine.

Post by **alanjstr** » January 19th, 2004, 8:41 am

You might have spyware that is trying to load up some ad page when you boot.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » January 19th, 2004, 3:28 pm

Processor is 700mhz pentium III, FSB 100, 383 ram. Not the fastest but it doesn't seem too slow. I did run a spyware cleaner and nothing showed up. The blinking isn't a big thing, love this browser.

Quintin Riis · Post by **Quintin Riis** » January 20th, 2004, 1:56 pm

700MHz is tons of power. Hmm.

Pretty odd.

Extract firebird to a new directory, start it up and see if this happens? Do you have lotsa extensions installed?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » January 20th, 2004, 9:25 pm

Three extensions total. Two of them are enabled. It does the same thing on my 1.5 Mozilla as well. I've unistalled and reinstalled, can't figure this one out. Starting to think it's something in this machine.

Thanks a lot

Quintin Riis · Post by **Quintin Riis** » January 21st, 2004, 2:14 am

Quite odd. I have no idea what the problem might be.