[ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

[Tony Pursell]

On 14 Mar 2009 at 7:23, Sean Miller wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
> > typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
> > just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed
> > issues...)
> 
> Nah.... there are more important things to do with your time than
> faffing about with a corrupted Firefox.  If you uninstall and
> re-install you'll also possibly get a more up-to-date version, so tell
> him that's your motivation if he moans... ;-)
> 
> Sean
> 

This might not be a bad idea.  My wife found Firefox to be hanging on 
videos in Windows until it was upgraded to a new version.  Personally. 
I have never had this problem in Windows or Ubuntu. 

So a re-install and the ubuntu-restricted-extras might be all you need.

Tony