[Novalug] firefox update weirdness

[rogerb at bronord.com]

I have done the following:

Look to see where a particular distro installs FF and where the
.mozilla/stuff/firefox is at

as root, make a copy of the stuff in the install dir
empty that dir
download the latest distro and install it into THAT dir
.
.
this gave me a new and clean install

the only things one should need to copy from the old profile are bookmarks . .
. maybe pref file.

Or, try your "uninstaller" and do a fresh install of FF
-- 
Roger W. Broseus
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> Try this...
>
> - Close firefox
> - In your home directory, renaming the mozilla/firefox directory that
> stores your configurations
> - Start firefox (it should recreate the directory with defaults)
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Tue, July 31, 2007 15:48, Ed James wrote:
>> Don,
>>
>>     That's a clue.  Poking around now looking for .rc, config, etc type
>> files.  Best guess is a change in expected directory structure somewhere.
>> Gonna try real hard not to break Mozilla while I'm at it. :P
>>
>>     Annoying part is not knowing yet if it's a change in Firefox, or GTK+,
>> or glib, or ??? that's the real problem, since I don't have source code
>> to drill down into, and dl-ing source code to look at is problematic
>> since I'd never be sure that the source matches the executables I have
>> now.
>>
>>     And Yes, real programmers compile from source - but I'm trying to
>> learn to be a wuss and failing miserably.
>>
>> EJ
>>
>> Quoting Dan Arico <dan_arico at aricosystems.com>:
>> ...
>>> I can tell you this much. You get those boxes when it can't display the
>>> character set that it's supposed to be using. For some reason, it
>>> doesn't know the path to your fonts. Something was moved or deleted or
>>> Firefox is simply pointing to the wrong place.
>>
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