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Hellow ShadowAce, I'm just tagging a question onto your last comment. If anyone has any ideas for me to try with a little problem, please comment. Sorry for the looong post.

[Short history: after reading at FR how great Firefox was, I got it, as I had difficulty with IE after windows updates. My older version of Netscape (4.6) was so outdated, it didn't work so hot, so I didn't use that either. I tried Opera for awhile, but didn't care for it.]

Downloaded Firefox - and LOVED it! Then, when I realized my one real important site (online grocery shopping place) wouldn't recognize nor use the Firefox browser, I had to download Netscape 7.2. That works fine for groceries.

I chose not to register Netscape (optional I thought) because they wanted too much info.

Now, when I start my computer, I get an error (not windows error) that says "Failed to open Mozlla registry file."

In addition, when I use Firefox here at FR, I don't see photos I've posted from photobucket. When I use Netscape at FR, photos show up.

I've tried searching the help info both at Netscape and Firefox. Here's the closest thing I could find.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq
"Windows

On Windows, Firefox can be used with Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It can not be used with the Microsoft Java VM, as that can only be used with Internet Explorer. Versions of Sun's JRE older than 1.3.0_01 will not work.

It is possible to install JRE 1.4.2_01 from within Firefox, using XPInstall technology.

By far the easiest way to get Java working is to install Firefox with the Unofficial Installer, then install Java using XPInstall.

If you have already downloaded Firefox as a ZIP file, you can add the registry information that JRE 1.4.2 and later require by hand. To do this, save this registry file to your desktop, and double-click to import it. If you are asked if you want to add the information to the Windows registry, click Yes. After this is done, you can install JRE 1.4.2 if required, then restart Firefox and use Java.

If neither of the above solutions work, you can use JRE 1.4.1_05 until the issue you are having is resolved. JRE 1.4.1_05 does not require the information in the Windows registry that JRE 1.4.2 does."

Is the above info what I want, do you think?

I have Windows XP Pro. I know absolutely nothing about java.

Thanks ahead of time for any ideas.