What happened to firefox

[Chris Rees]

2008/10/6 Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>:
> On Monday 06 October 2008 12:20:12 Chris Rees wrote:
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>> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:55:48 +0200
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>> Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
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>> > Hi Ubuntu users,
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>> >
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>> > Since yesterday my firefox always starts from scratch. What I mean is
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>> > that if I start up firefox, I have to walk through the extensions I
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>> > installed (eg. weather, down-them-all, addblock, ...) and the downloaded
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>> > themes can be selected but never get active.
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>> >
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>> > Everything was running fine until the day before yesterday, so what has
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>> > changed.
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>> > Can I reinstall the previous version and how do I do that? I read about
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>> > dpkg pinning, but I do not know how to get back to the previous version.
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>> > Tx/Alain
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>> Your problem is likely the permissions on ~/.mozilla.
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>> You need to run:
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>> $ sudo chown -R [your username here] ~/.mozilla
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>> $ sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~/.mozilla
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>> Yes, that is a capital X.
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> Hi,
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> Tx for the advice, but the ~/.mozilla permissions are correct, they belong
> to me. Though I executed your commands, but still the same problem, having
> to ACK all extensions as if you start firefox the very first time. Very
> annoying!
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> Tx anyway/Alain
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>> Good luck
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>> Chris
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Mayhap something a little more brute force. Try

$ tar cvjf ~/mozilla.old.tbz ~/.mozilla
$ rm -rf ~/.mozilla
$ firefox &

If that doesn't work.... I'm stumped!

Chris


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