Firefox 2.0.0.14

[Donn]

On Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:27:39 Charly Avital wrote:
> The splash screen with the progression bar underneath reads Kubuntu.
It's probably a splash screen you custom installed. It could be a bitmap using 
Kubuntu, but your system is definitely Ubuntu.

> > $ which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
Good -- that's the default. 

> > $ locate firefox-bin
> /home/shavital/firefox/firefox-bin
> /opt/firefox/firefox-bin
Ah, you seem to have 2 others installed. I am not sure which one is what 
version.

You need to find out which one your Firefox icon is running. Not sure about 
Gnome buttons, but right-clicking it should bring up some kind of properties 
dialog.

Either way, you should be able to run it from the terminal by:
/usr/bin/firefox
Check version. close.
/home/shavita/firefox/firefox
Check version. close.
/opt/firefox/firefox
Check again.

(if the last word 'firefox' does not run substitute 'run-mozilla.sh' )

That will clue you in. 

Another wrinkle is that firefox will be looking in /home/shavita/.mozilla for 
various settings etc. One of those is a thing called a 'Profile'. Your profle 
may be hijacking things somewhat.

You could make a copy of ~/.mozilla by renaming it:
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_testing

Then run ff again and it should create that folder again. You will lose all 
your bookmarks and add-ons etc, but they are all still in 
the .mozilla_testing you just made.

Once you have the right version of FF running, you can start to put things 
back into .mozilla one by one.

I know it sounds crazy, but your system seems crufty (full of old stuff, many 
versions, like a palimpsest) and this kind of sleuthing is the only way I 
know to fix stuff.

You could always backup your data, format and install afresh, but that's too 
much work eh?

> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
Case closed :D

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