firefox lockups after update

[Vincent Onelli]

> From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>
> Subject: Re: firefox lockups after update

> Vincent Onelli writes:
> 
> > I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try,
> > the "starting firefox ..." appears at the bottom of screen for few
> > seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I
> > will wait while just in case there may be some new idea to try.
> > Thanks to all of you.
> 
> This shouldn't be this difficult to troubleshoot.
> 
> Step 1:
> 
> touch /forefsck
> shutdown -r now
> 
> This reboots Fedora. Upon reboot, all your partitions auto-fscked. This 
> should fix any filesystem corruption that might result in application 
> failures, like Firefox.
> 
> Step 2:
> 
> rpm -e firefox
> yum install firefox
> 
> This removes and reinstalls Firefox, which would fix any unlikely 
> application corruption.
> 
> If Firefox still fails to start up:
> 
> Step 3:
> 
> mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.save
> 
> This removes -- renames actually -- the Firefox configuration directory. The 
> next time Firefox starts, it will create an empty, default, configuration. 
> If Firefox now runs, you had a problem with a corrupted/bad configuration. 
> You, of course, will lose all your bookmarks and extensions. If this fixes 
> your problem, you can later try to recover to salvage and recover whatever 
> your can, from your saved configuration directory.
> 
> If Firefox still fails to load, there are only two possibilities:
> 
> A. You're hitting a bone-fide bug in Firefox, for some reason.
> 
> B. Somehow, some unknown system libraries got corrupted.
> 
> You may be able to obtain some clues by running "firefox" from a terminal 
> window, which would dump any errors that Firefox barfs to standard output or 
> standard error, which you would not ordinary see when starting Firefox from 
> the desktop.
> 
Step 1, and 2 did not work, but step 3 did, firefox restored!
By the way running firefox from terminal worked too and it did not
showed any error.
This is great, you guys saved me a lot of reinstallation time. 
Thank you so much to every body for helping me.
Vinny