FC3 Firefox bollixed up

Ian Malone ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Nov 3 23:23:38 UTC 2005


Dave Stevens wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> recently I yielded to the impulse to try Firefox 1.5 RCx. It worked 
> after installation until I restarted the system for an unrelated 
> matter. Then it seems to grind to a halt after startup, occupying the
>  screen, not permitting any typing in the location window and failing
>  to respond when I clicked the X in the top right to close it out. I 
> was able to SU and then kill the process.
> 
> So I thought I'd drop back to 1.0.7. I then did yum remove firefox 
> and yum install firefox. But the problem persists. I assume therefore
>  that the problem was unrelated to the version change. I don't know 
> where to look for diagnostic information. Ideas?
> 

No specific ideas, but have you tried moving your Firefox user settings
(~/.mozilla/firefox) to a backup directory? It's possible something has
happened to it.

-- 
imalone




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