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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