SOLVED: firefox problem

[Jaime Alvarez]

I used the install program as you said and it worked!! I installed it 
directly in /usr/lib/firefox (deleting the previous firefox and 
firefox-0.9.1). Nothing else was necessary.

Thanks to everybody.

Jaime
PS: Any idea why this is happening?

David Smith wrote:

>Well the major difference from what I did and from what you did appears
>to be that you used rpms and yum. Where as I downloaded mine from
>mozilla.org. It could be possible that there is something broken in the
>rpms. I have however found this version to be somewhat more buggy then
>0.8. Here is what I did and if you want to try go for it.
>This is the only way I got it to work, and trust me it's a bit weird.
>1) I downloaded the install program from mozilla.org.
>2) Extracted it.
>3) sued in as root.
>4) Used ./firefox-installer (This is the weird part)
>5) I couldn't get it to install to /usr/share/firefox or
>/usr/share/firefox-installer so I installed it to the directory that I
>had to extracted it to. If it works it automatically opens a firefox
>window (p.s. the theme is pretty bad...you may want to change it...after
>the next step).
>6) I then just moved that dir to /usr/share/firefox (i.e.
>~/.../firefox-installer/* /usr/share/firefox).
>
>I think it my multiple attempts I had changed the directory name a
>couple of times, but after I did this is when it showed the best signs
>of working. You may want to check all the permissions for security
>reasons. Hope that helps shed some light on the differences.
>
>David
>On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:13, 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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>>>>I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora Core 1.
>>>>
>>>>Jaime
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>>>>>Re: firefox problem
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org>
>>>>>
>>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
>>>>>
>>>>>Subject: Re: firefox problem
>>>>>
>>>>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400
>>>>>
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>>>>>Jaime Alvarez wrote:
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>>>>>>I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version
>>>>>>yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to
>>>>>>install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the original
>>>>>>mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works
>>>>>>fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update was needed
>>>>>>and i agreed to it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any suggestions?
>>>>>>
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>>>>>it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. ( installation
>>>>>of XFree86 )
>>>>>
>>>>>FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list to see
>>>>>if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be possible )
>>>>>installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86 packages in
>>>>>favor of the Xorg packages.
>>>>>
>>>>>-- 
>>>>>Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>Linux user because anything else is just insane.
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>>I renamed my .mozilla directory, and when i started firefox it prompted 
>>me for importing dtaa from older versions, but then it didn't work (i 
>>trid both, importing and not importing)
>>
>>In my opinion, it is very strange that mozilla 1.4.1 doesn't start either...
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