Help! firefox won't start

[David Berg]

On 10/12/06, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> All of a sudden I can't launch firefox!  Clicking on the icon adds an
> entry to the task panel called "Starting Firefox Web Browser" for some
> 20 seconds or so, and then it disappears.  Running firefox from a
> shell prompt seems to either hang, or exit immediately, with no
> diagnostic output whatsoever.

Try creating a new account and running it as that user.  If that
works, then something is probably wrong in ~/.mozilla.  If not,

apt-get remove --purge firefox && apt-get install firefox

might fix it, but won't help with finding out what went wrong.

--Dave