A Problematic "Solution"

[Nathan Bahn]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:20 AM, d-_-b <theunknownandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Attention all--
> >
> > A hard drive seemed to be crapping out on me, so I acquired another hard
> drive and set up a dual-boot system.  I had an openSUSE live disk lying
> around, that was current (I don't have a current Ubuntu live disk), so I
> installed it.  The problem is is that Firefox is seriously whacked.  I can
> access my Gmail account (rather obviously), but now without issues, and I
> have very serious issues when trying to interact with both the Firefox and
> openSUSE websites.
> >
> > The issue:  Not all text is being printed; even worse -- and this is very
> much true for the Firefox and openSUSE websites -- a good many (nearly all,
> in fact) of the links on the websites either show up as lines or not at all.
> As a result, I'm unable to effectively interact with them and request advice
> (no, I never joined any of their listserves).
> >
> > I know that this isn't listserve isn't for openSUSE Firefox, but if
> anyone has any ideas, then I'd be mighty obliged if they would be kind
> enough to share them.
> > --N.B.
> > --
> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html &
> http://www.openoffice.org (Nathan Bahn)
> >
>
> Try creating a new profile using "firefox -ProfileManager" on the cmd
> line, let's see if this works. Also could you let us know the version
> of FF you are using?
>
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   - It's FF (openSUSE) v.3.6.10
   - I tried *"firefox -ProfileManager"* on the CLI, and although a new
   window for FF opened up, the problems still remain.

--N.B.
-- 
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html &
http://www.openoffice.org (Nathan Bahn)
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