firefox problem

[Jaime Alvarez]

I just checked the .mozilla/firefox directory, and i didn't find any 
executables. It seems that you installed firefox as a user, while i did 
it as root (using su). Anyway, i don't know where to look for firefox 
logs... suggestions?

David Smith wrote:

>Have you tried to start it from a terminal to see if it spits an error
>or checked the logs? My firefox dir was under .mozilla.
>David
>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:30, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
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>>David Smith wrote:
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>>>I had a similar problem this morning after I installed Firefox from the
>>>Mozilla website. I found that it would sit there and then not start at
>>>all. To fix mine I just renamed my .mozilla directory to
>>>.mozilla_backup. This seemed to have fixed it. Seems that this version
>>>of firefox is different. For example it had import my bookmarks etc.
>>>Hope that helps.
>>>David
>>>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:00, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
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>>Yeap, that describes my Firefox's symptoms. The first time i tried to 
>>start it up, it did ask me about importing my profile and i selected 
>>Mozilla/Firefox and pressed 'yes'. Those are the last words i heard from 
>>it. I even uninstalled, installed it again and rebooted (windows reflex) 
>>without success.
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>>I have the following related directories:
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>>mozilla
>>.phoenix
>>.thunderbird
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>>I even have
>>.netscape
>>.nestcape6
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>>But no .firefox :-(
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