On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:20:41AM +0200, Simon Becherer wrote:
Am 28.09.21 um 08:51 schrieb Ianseeks:
Hi
Does anyone have any issues using Firefox? I'm not sure when this happened as i haven't used it for a while. I can no longer right click for a menu, paste anything into the address field, restore the menus. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it makes no difference.
regards
Ian
Re-installing mostly (maybe always) did not delete your config. if your config is the problem (i think so) you have to delete it first.
My thoughts too. For giggles I just tried this in a clean VM that needed updating: # zypper rm MozillaFirefox # zypper in MozillaFirefox Unsurprisingly the user config stayed the same, as the only files changed by rpm/zypper were under /usr, as shown by: # rpm -ql MozillaFirefox
this could for a lot of "end user programs" easily tested: 1)set up a new user. 2) start firefox from the new generated user.
if running, then search for the config files for firefox inside (i think) your home/youruser/.config/. directory delete it. (maybe also you have to delete .../cache/.... ... if not sure, make backups of the files you like to delete
FireFox creates a userprofile that keeps the config information on very first launch, it will start with randomised eight alphanumerics, here's with Leap 15.3: /home/testuser/.mozilla/firefox/abcd1234.default.esr78 (ThunderBird does something very similar) I'm sure there's a button to recreate a clean profile somewhere (or just mv/rename it), but that's a bit drastic. Creating a new/clean user and checking is one easy way to elminate config issues, another is going to the top menubar and trying without addons: Help->Restart with Addons Disabled HTH, Daniel