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Hi.. I have done something to the firefox and it won't start now. I have tried re-installing it but it doesn't work. What happens is that when I click on firefox the glasshour in the kicker animates for a few seconds and after which it dies off. I believe that the problem arose after I attempted to install a MacOS theme in firefox. I am using SuSE10.1 Kindly help!!!! -- Puneit Singh 0091-9350832020 Registered Linux User #431278 Registered Linux Machine #336341
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Hi.. I have done something to the firefox and it won't start now. I have tried re-installing it but it doesn't work. What happens is that when I click on firefox the glasshour in the kicker animates for a few seconds and after which it dies off. I believe that the problem arose after I attempted to install a MacOS theme in firefox. I am using SuSE10.1 Kindly help!!!!
Run it from xterm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCNR. Jan Engelhardt --
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I have done something to the firefox and it won't start now. I have tried re-installing it but it doesn't work. What happens is that when I click on firefox the glasshour in the kicker animates for a few seconds and after which it dies off. I believe that the problem arose after I attempted to install a MacOS theme in firefox. I am using SuSE10.1
Reinstalling the app will rarely solve your problem. There is a distinct separation between application and configuration in Linux. When a previously behaving application in Linux begins to fail (and you have not updated the application binary itself) the problem is almost always in the local user configuration files, and not in the application itself. When you reinstall the applicaiton you are not replacing or removing the local user's configuration... so when you attempt to start the reinstalled application it just uses the broken configuration again... First try renaming (don't delete) the .mozilla directory in your home area, and then start Firefox. This will force Firefox to re-write its configuration in your home, and your problem will probably go away. You can then copy over your bookmarks and other important configurations. You could also try manually adjusting the configuration in your existing .mozilla directory, but... it is often easier and faster to just start with a clean config directory. Note... I said rename, not delete.... if you delete the .mozilla directory, you will loose your bookmarks etc. If you rename, it's all still there, and you can copy over the bits that you need to keep once it starts behaving properly again. C.
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On Monday 25 September 2006 12:11, Clayton wrote:
I have done something to the firefox and it won't start now. I have tried re-installing it but it doesn't work. What happens is that when I click on firefox the glasshour in the kicker animates for a few seconds and after which it dies off. I believe that the problem arose after I attempted to install a MacOS theme in firefox. I am using SuSE10.1
First try renaming (don't delete) the .mozilla directory in your home area, and then start Firefox. This will force Firefox to re-write its configuration in your home, and your problem will probably go away. You can then copy over your bookmarks and other important configurations.
Ok.. I changed the older ".mozilla" directory to ".mozilla_old" and then ran firefox.. It asked me if I wanted to import from Opera and I chose Do not import anything but again nothing happened. -- Puneit Singh 0091-9350832020 Registered Linux User #431278 Registered Linux Machine #336341
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I have done something to the firefox and it won't start now. I have tried re-installing it but it doesn't work. What happens is that when I click on firefox the glasshour in the kicker animates for a few seconds and after which it dies off. I believe that the problem arose after I attempted to install a MacOS theme in firefox. I am using SuSE10.1
Reinstalling the app will rarely solve your problem. There is a distinct separation between application and configuration in Linux. When a previously behaving application in Linux begins to fail (and you have not updated the application binary itself) the problem is almost always in the local user configuration files, and not in the application itself. When you reinstall the applicaiton you are not replacing or removing the local user's configuration... so when you attempt to start the reinstalled application it just uses the broken configuration again...
First try renaming (don't delete) the .mozilla directory in your home area, and then start Firefox. This will force Firefox to re-write its configuration in your home, and your problem will probably go away. You can then copy over your bookmarks and other important configurations. HI, In my previous mail I said that firefox didnot work after chaning
On Monday 25 September 2006 12:11, Clayton wrote: the ".mozilla" directory. After writing the mail, I restarted the machine and then tried..and then firefox started working... Thanks a lot for the help -- Puneit Singh 0091-9350832020 Registered Linux User #431278 Registered Linux Machine #336341
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Clayton
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Jan Engelhardt
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Puneit Singh