I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.8 on Windows (2k, fwiw), and I've got no such problem. Maybe it's related to one of your extensions?

No problems on 2k or xp.

I think my Firefox install got messed up somehow. It was having all sorts of glitchy behavior today. I finally gave in and installed 2.0, things are working fine now...

(Glitchy: Not drawing borders around text boxes and buttons anymore, location bar overflowing and spilling into the google search widget, mouse cursor not changing into a text-select icon over text, ... Don't really know what happened to cause it.)

I'm glad you posted this, because I logged into my Gmail account (which I never use) to see if Firefox would work, and found out a friend has been sending me email at that address for the last seven months without me knowing it. I thought he'd just been very quiet lately.

BP!!

Hey how is Firefox 2.0 these days? is it stable? should I upgrade? Running win XP if that matters at all.

I've been running FF 2.0 at work and at home (XP both places) for a couple of weeks now and have had zero problems with it. I'd say go for it!

I've been holding off on 2.0 as well due to the problems. Sounds like it's time to upgrade. Thanks, BP.

Works fine for me, knave. What you should do is use the profile manager to create a fresh profile, which probably won't have any problems. Move your bookmarks over (easy), cookies and passwords (trickier but possible), and add back extensions one by one.

Firefox problems are 90% of the time due to borked profiles.