Two Buggy Browsers

[Angus MacGyver]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:46 -0400, Nathan Bahn wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:32 PM, daniel mcfarland
> <daniel.mcfarland at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Bahn
>         <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Angus MacGyver
>                 <macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
>                         [...]
>                         As to the firefox..
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>                         Have you tried to execute it from the command
>                         line ?
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>                         Quoting PeteVG
>                         2)  Try running Firefox from the command line
>                         by opening a terminal,
>                         typing "firefox", and hitting Enter.  Watch
>                         the terminal output, as it
>                         may give you hints as to why Firefox is
>                         crashing.
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>                         Do that and post any output...
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>                         Cheers
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>                         AM
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>                 A.M.--
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>                 nat at nat-desktop:~$ ls ~/
>                 AdbeRdr9.3.3-1_i486linux_enu.bin  examples.desktop
>                 Podcasts
>                 Adobe                             Firefox
>                    Public
>                 AdobeReader.desktop
>                 Firefox_wallpaper.png  Templates
>                 Azureus Downloads                 hs_err_pid25054.log
>                    troubleshoot.txt
>                 bin                               hs_err_pid25604.log
>                    Videos
>                 Desktop                           Music
>                 Documents                         Pictures
>                 nat at nat-desktop:~$ cd ~/Firefox
>                 nat at nat-desktop:~/Firefox$ ls
>                 application.ini             libfreebl3.so    LICENSE
>                 blocklist.xml               libmozjs.so      modules
>                 browserconfig.properties    libnspr4.so
>                  mozilla-xremote-client
>                 chrome                      libnss3.so
>                 platform.ini
>                 components                  libnssckbi.so
>                  plugin-container
>                 crashreporter               libnssdbm3.chk   plugins
>                 crashreporter.ini           libnssdbm3.so
>                  README.txt
>                 crashreporter-override.ini  libnssutil3.so
>                 removed-files
>                 defaults                    libplc4.so       res
>                 dependentlibs.list          libplds4.so
>                  run-mozilla.sh
>                 dictionaries                libsmime3.so
>                 searchplugins
>                 extensions                  libsoftokn3.chk
>                  Throbber-small.gif
>                 firefox                     libsoftokn3.so
>                 update.locale
>                 firefox-bin                 libsqlite3.so    updater
>                 greprefs                    libssl3.so
>                 updater.ini
>                 icons                       libxpcom.so
>                 libfreebl3.chk              libxul.so
>                 nat at nat-desktop:~/Firefox$ firefox
>                 nat at nat-desktop:~/Firefox$ 
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>                 A window keeps popping up saying that FF is already
>                 running.....
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>          Run this :
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>           "ps -ef f | grep firefox | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' |
>         xargs kill ; firefox"
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>           Then send us the result.
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>           kthxbye
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> kthxbye--
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> nat at nat-desktop:~$ ps -ef f | grep firefox | grep -v grep | awk
> '{print $2}' | xargs kill ; firefox
> nat at nat-desktop:~$ ~/Firefox/firefox
> NPP_GetValue 1
> NPP_GetValue 2
> Attempting to load the system libmoon 
> NPP_GetValue()
> NPP_GetValue()
> nat at nat-desktop:~$ 
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> I get a window saying that FF crashed.
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DOH!!!! 
I missed something..

And here is the thing..

This appears to be not a "system" version of Firefox, but a stand-alone
copy in your home directory..

For a normal setup, firefox should be started from /usr/bin/firefox, not
~/Firefox/firefox (~ meaning *your* home directory - sorry if you know
this, don't know how much you do, so putting anyway)

macgyver at executor:/home/macgyver> which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox


Unless there is a really compelling reason to use one specifically in
your own home directory, I would try to use the system one..

Try running the "which firefox" command to make sure you get the
same /usr/bin/firefox as myself (also a 10.04 LTS user)

Try running that version, see what happens...


If you don't get that, but something else, then the pathing may well be
a bit broken, and a re-install of firefox from Synaptic might be the
best course of action.


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AM