Firefox clogged

[Dale Dellutri]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>        I don't know if this is a Firefox (10.0-2.fc16.x86_64) problem,
> an xfce problem, or an F16 problem.
>
>        I used to have Firefox set as the default browser; and it seems
> to think it still is. (I changed it to Midori, but that has not taken
> effect.) When I click on a link in Alpine or Pan, Firefox goes to that
> site.
>
>        But it won't go anywhere else. If I click on any other tab,
> nothing visible happens. That's true regardless whether I go to the
> workspace where Firefox is already open or click on a link.

Try starting it from the command line and see if you get any error messages.
first close all firefox instances, and then:
  $ firefox http://news.google.com &
for example.

>        I tried yum reinstall firefox, and yum claimed to have done so.
> But that didn't help.
>
>        I can set a different default browser; but there are a lot of
> things I generally do on firefox, so I want it to work, too.
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
> I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
>
>
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Dale Dellutri