can anybody help with this I have the same problem as do 30 other people by the look of it and this is the only result within the search engine that mentions it come on mozilla give me some help otherwise i am off to chrome!!!!!

I also noticed something about Google analytics, along with the connecting to http://myprofile.ignorelist.com message. Firefox is very slow to load pages.

In my IContact autoresponder messages, when I update them, that http://myprofile.ignorelist.com would actually appear in the autoresponder email. Very weird.

I've already changed to Safari- no problems there!

I guess I am surprised that there does not seem to be any response to this. It is not not subtle. I realize that this isn't anything I've paid for, but I would think that with all the people involved with Safari, someone would have some kind of answer, even it was a request for some more info.

I wonder if anyone IS NOT having this issue. :-(

I thought I posted another reply earlier about turning off javascript to make the symptom disappear. But I guess I didn't hit "Post Reply" :-(

Anyway I used that tidbit of info to go a bit further and tried to find the particular script that had been added/modified, etc. I found that none of the info cached had anything to do with it. I also found that running on another userid on the same machine. the problem was not there. So that left a user's specific prefs/profile and data as the next place to look. I looked but was not very succesful in the hour I had left.

PLEASE DON"T DO THIS UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WILLING TO DO THE WORK NECESSARY TO RECOVER.

You will lose all your settings, plugins, cookies, etc. :-() IT will be like you have installed FF for the first time. The only good thing is that if you have multiple users on your machine,, they will still be all right.

At you own risk:

1. quit Firefox
2. Go to /Users/<your short name>/Library/Application Support
3. In that directory delete the directory Firefox
4. Start Firefox and start recovering all you Plugins, Bookmarks, etc.

Good Luck Steve Coles

This is really bizarre! Plus the fact that Firefox no longer supports Google toolbar pushed me to Safari.

Actually this has been a blessing in disguise. I started using Safari and bookmarks and love it!

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and still have the problem. This myprofile.ignorelist.com problem is causing tons of problems for me. On one site if causes an error for every single page I visit. I have run PC Doctor, Avast, and Norton scans trying to find some kind of bug. Nothing. I am ready to give up on Firefox after years of being a loyal user. This is maddening.  :(

Uninstalling & reinstalling will not remove the problem, because by themselves the directory mentioned above does not get removed. There are some third party uninstallers that would delete it but I don't remember their names.

I would not get down on Firefox because of this. This could happen to any of the others. I was wrong above about this being widespread. It appears that the problem is very isolated.

Try my method above and see if this doesn't resolve the issue.

Steve

You wrote in all caps not to do your method unless we know what we are doing. I am not trained or skilled in this stuff, so I did not try it. After years of using Firefox, I finally switched to Chrome and that is working beautifully for me. It also imported all my bookmarks which I would lose if I tried your method.

Even if this is fairly isolated, I am disappointed that it happened and that no one has responded to this thread. The ignorelist thing made one site that I use all the time for my work pretty much unusable since it caused an error on every single page there. I need a working browser and I took all kinds of steps to fix this on my end in case it was some bug I picked up, but it seems to be a firefox problem and firefox does not seem to care, so I am moving on.

Sorry, I haven't had time to really come up with an easier way to clean this up. :-( Certainly, it must be very frustrating. To be truthful, I was hoping somebody would chime in an find and easier way.

But you should know that I too switched to chrome.

for what its worth, when you try to go to that page on your browser you will site not found or busy. I did a tracert on it and here is the output,

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>tracert myprofile.ignorelist.com

Tracing route to myprofile.ignorelist.com [127.0.0.2] over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  localhost [127.0.0.1]

Trace complete.

I know 127.0.01 is localhost. I have gone to windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts.txt and it is there, with no other entries.

I have tried all the virus, MBAM anti malware, smitfraud fix, HiJackThis and , Microsoft MSRT, SpyBotSearch and Destroy, even ComboFix, every single one says there is nothing wrong with my computer.

Hope this helps you folks find an answer to why this happens. You type the url, hit enter, it does it thing. Say facebook where it goes to the page, contacts a dozen other advertisement things and such, searches on google, you name it, the last thing it does before it stops loading and you are set to continue, it go to myprofile.ignorelist.com, and since it apparently is non existant, there is the delay.

BTW 2, a full entire search of my registry has no reference there either.

I have figured out how to fix this problem until Mozilla releases an official fix for it.

You need to add it to your hosts file so it blocks Firefox from ever even attempting to connect to it.

HERE IS THE FIX: ONCE YOU ARE IN YOUR HOSTS FILE, PUT THIS AT THE BOTTOM: 127.0.0.1 myprofile.ignorelist.com

TO LEARN HOW TO EDIT THE HOSTS FILE ON WINDOWS XP, GO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo_QZFQHJ9c

TO LEARN HOW TO EDIT THE HOSTS FILE ON VISTA/7, GO HERE: http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-7/edit-hosts-file-in-windows-7-windows-vista/

TO EDIT THE HOSTS FILE ON A MAC: 1. Open Terminal 2. Type sudo bash 3. Type your root password 4. Type nano /etc/hosts 5. In between the lines, 127.0.0.1 localhost and 255.255.255.255 broadcast host, put the line I gave you: 127.0.0.1 myprofile.ignorelist.com

6. Press ctrl + x 7. If it asks you about a buffer, enter the letter Y and then press enter. 8. You'll be returned to Terminal, press control x again to flush the DNS cache, and reopen Firefox.

9. YOU'RE DONE!

Sounds interesting but I have no idea how to find what you're talking about!

I have a couple of sites I have to use Firefox for, as Safari is incompatible with them. I downloaded the most recent older version of Firefox and no longer have the problem... until Firefox doesn't support the older version, and I have no idea how long that will take.

Connecting to myprofile.ignorelist.com... ... ... ... ... ... wtf? Please Fix!

@ dpl47... I'm not tech-savvy enough to follow the mac procedure.

Could you maybe elaborate or put up a vid link?

I had this problem as well and found the solution. Go to your Addons section and download Blocksite and install it. After you do go to it and set it up by going to Options then Add and type in http://myprofile.ignorelist.com and then click OK. This nifty little script will block it and will speed up Firefox enormously.

Good news! I downloaded the latest version of Firefox a couple of weeks ago and I no longer have this problem!