Firefox 3.0.3 not working

[Eberhard Roloff]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 27 October 2008 04:34:06 am Edmund Laugasson wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Has anybody problem, that if you run Firefox 3.0.3, it does not start?
>>
>> I tried from GUI and command line - no feedback - it just won't start :(
>> Sometimes it will start some minutes later. Often I just kill the process,
>> because I'm not so patient to wait some minutes.
>>
>> I found this thread -
>> http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840240 - but it
>> didn't help me.
>>
>> I also read from Google, that one TTF-font beginning with letter "t" caused
>> problem - I removed all my TTF-fonts with beginning "t" - no result. I run
>> also fc-cache -rv and made several restarts to PC - no effect :(
>>
>> So, I'm stuck and considering reinstall whole system and hoping, that next
>> time it will not happen.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Edmund
> 
> Since you've tried everything else, try removing all firefox packages, with 
> purge selected (from synaptic it would be "completely remove including config 
> files").
> 
> Then try reinstalling them.  It may be that some lib or some font didn't get 
> installed, or maybe a lang support package.
> 

Before going there, you might open a terminal and see, what
"sudo firefox" shows.

In any case "reinstall whole system and hoping, that next
time it will not happen." is not a viable option, imho.

Generally in Linux it is far more preferable to fix your problem before 
going for the "windowisch problem solution strategy".

And, after all and as far as I can see, firefox works excellently on 
x/k/ubuntu, (nearly) anywhere.

Kind regards
Eberhard

Kind regards
Eberhard