<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Basil Chupin <<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> What I would suggest is that you go to System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager and uninstall Firefox - and then re-install it. Quite often doing so will clear some problematic bit of an installed app - like FF. But before you do this, just to play it safe, backup your /home/<your-loginname>/.mozilla directory and then re-install FF. Oh- just in case, and before you zap FF and re-install it: what sometimes helps is to WIPE, ie delete, the CACHE for FF -- ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxx.default/Cache. Simply delete it - it will regenerate the next time you start FF. Often something is stored in Cache[1] which plays havoc with whatever you are now doing in FF, and by deleting the contents of Cache brings normality to the world of chaos :-) . [1] Whatever you see on the monitor screen when you are using FF is automatically stored in Cache - everything. You watch a YouTube flv file - it's in Cache; you go to a porn site - it's contents are in Cache. At the end of the day the Cache is compressed and archived - but you need a special program to be able to see what is those archives. <div class="im"> BC -- And God created Woman; and to repent He then created Beer. </div></blockquote><div> I also had no trouble with these sites. Reinstalling FF may or may not work. If it does fine. If not, may I suggest a little ditty I run after every large emerge: #!/bin/bash dispatch-conf revdep-rebuild lafilefixer --justfixit perl-cleaner all I make it executable ("cleanup") and put it in /usr/local/sbin because you need to be root. I've saved myself from a number of invalid bug reports by doing this "whether it needs it or not". Only the dispatch-conf is interactive, so I can just let the rest run. Since I run stable other than a very few temporary exceptions, I've had no problems with this at all. ++ kevin </div></div> -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD