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Re: [SLE] firefox starts 2 times after upgrade
- From: Robert Lewis <rll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:57:16 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <44E491C2.2070407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
How about creating a new desktop icon yourself to firefox
using the same path that you use when you bring it up by
command line.
I think this may help lead you to a solution.
Cor van Haastregt wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:24:57PM -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 15:55, Cor van Haastregt wrote:
>>
>>> I am using SuSE 9.3.
>>> Today i updated firefox from 1.0.8 to 1.5.0.6-1.4 (using YaST)
>>> After the update, as soon as i click the shortcut on my desktop firefox
>>> starts 2 times.
>>> The first is very quick available, but you can see that it tries to load
>>> a second time, which fails.
>>> I can use firefox normally after this.
>>>
>> The last person I helped fix this had two Firefox installations... one
>> downloaded directly from mozilla.org and installed as user, which created a
>> ~/firefox directory... the second was a later version, a SUSE-packaged rpm,
>> installed as root via YaST (maybe via command line rpm.)
>>
>> The 'dual launch' attempt behavior went away after he removed both versions,
>> deleted the ~/firefox directory (retaining his ~/.mozilla directory) and
>> reinstalled the properly packaged version from SUSE
>>
>
> Ok, i checked, no ~/firefox directory, only the standard ~/.mozilla
> directory.
> I never installed a version of firefox myself, only used YaST to update
> it.
> So i uninstalled mozilla firefox (with YaST), reinstalled it and
> immediatly updated it to 1.5.0.6, no result, it still starts twice when
> clicking on the desktop shortcut.
>
> So i removed the desktop shortcut, made a new one, no result.
>
> I removed my entire ~/.mozilla directory, and then firefox starts only
> once as it should be.
> All starts thereafter go wrong again.
>
> It only goes wrong when clicking on the desktop icon, starting firefox
> from the commandline, or via the start menu starts firefox normal.
>
> Thanks for the help so far,
> Grtz,
> Cor van Haastregt
>
>
using the same path that you use when you bring it up by
command line.
I think this may help lead you to a solution.
Cor van Haastregt wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:24:57PM -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 15:55, Cor van Haastregt wrote:
>>
>>> I am using SuSE 9.3.
>>> Today i updated firefox from 1.0.8 to 1.5.0.6-1.4 (using YaST)
>>> After the update, as soon as i click the shortcut on my desktop firefox
>>> starts 2 times.
>>> The first is very quick available, but you can see that it tries to load
>>> a second time, which fails.
>>> I can use firefox normally after this.
>>>
>> The last person I helped fix this had two Firefox installations... one
>> downloaded directly from mozilla.org and installed as user, which created a
>> ~/firefox directory... the second was a later version, a SUSE-packaged rpm,
>> installed as root via YaST (maybe via command line rpm.)
>>
>> The 'dual launch' attempt behavior went away after he removed both versions,
>> deleted the ~/firefox directory (retaining his ~/.mozilla directory) and
>> reinstalled the properly packaged version from SUSE
>>
>
> Ok, i checked, no ~/firefox directory, only the standard ~/.mozilla
> directory.
> I never installed a version of firefox myself, only used YaST to update
> it.
> So i uninstalled mozilla firefox (with YaST), reinstalled it and
> immediatly updated it to 1.5.0.6, no result, it still starts twice when
> clicking on the desktop shortcut.
>
> So i removed the desktop shortcut, made a new one, no result.
>
> I removed my entire ~/.mozilla directory, and then firefox starts only
> once as it should be.
> All starts thereafter go wrong again.
>
> It only goes wrong when clicking on the desktop icon, starting firefox
> from the commandline, or via the start menu starts firefox normal.
>
> Thanks for the help so far,
> Grtz,
> Cor van Haastregt
>
>
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