firefox problem

[Craig]

David Smith wrote:

 >Well the major difference from what I did and from what you did appears
 >to be that you used rpms and yum. Where as I downloaded mine from
 >mozilla.org. It could be possible that there is something broken in the
 >rpms. I have however found this version to be somewhat more buggy then
 >0.8. Here is what I did and if you want to try go for it.
 >This is the only way I got it to work, and trust me it's a bit weird.
 >1) I downloaded the install program from mozilla.org.
 >2) Extracted it.
 >3) sued in as root.
 >4) Used ./firefox-installer (This is the weird part)
 >5) I couldn't get it to install to /usr/share/firefox or
 >/usr/share/firefox-installer so I installed it to the directory that I
 >had to extracted it to. If it works it automatically opens a firefox
 >window (p.s. the theme is pretty bad...you may want to change it...after
 >the next step).
 >6) I then just moved that dir to /usr/share/firefox (i.e.
 >~/.../firefox-installer/* /usr/share/firefox).
 >
 >I think it my multiple attempts I had changed the directory name a
 >couple of times, but after I did this is when it showed the best signs
 >of working. You may want to check all the permissions for security
 >reasons. Hope that helps shed some light on the differences.
 >
 >David
 >On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:13, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
 >
 >>David Smith wrote:
 >>
 >>>I had a similar problem this morning after I installed Firefox from the
 >>>Mozilla website. I found that it would sit there and then not start at
 >>>all. To fix mine I just renamed my .mozilla directory to
 >>>.mozilla_backup. This seemed to have fixed it. Seems that this version
 >>>of firefox is different. For example it had import my bookmarks etc.
 >>>Hope that helps.
 >>>David
 >>>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:00, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>>I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora
Core 1.
 >>>>
 >>>>Jaime
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>>Re: firefox problem
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>Subject: Re: firefox problem
 >>>>>
 >>>>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>Jaime Alvarez wrote:
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>>I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version
 >>>>>>yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to
 >>>>>>install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the
original
 >>>>>>mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works
 >>>>>>fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update
was needed
 >>>>>>and i agreed to it.
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>>Any suggestions?
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. (
installation
 >>>>>of XFree86 )
 >>>>>
 >>>>>FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list
to see
 >>>>>if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be
possible )
 >>>>>installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86
packages in
 >>>>>favor of the Xorg packages.
 >>>>>
 >>>>>--
 >>>>>Mark
 >>>>>
 >>>>>Linux user because anything else is just insane.
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>
 >>>
 >>I renamed my .mozilla directory, and when i started firefox it prompted
 >>me for importing dtaa from older versions, but then it didn't work (i
 >>trid both, importing and not importing)
 >>
 >>In my opinion, it is very strange that mozilla 1.4.1 doesn't start
either...
 >
 >
There is a permission problem with the RPM version. By default, the
~/.mozilla directory is 700, but firefox won't work with that setup.
If you change the permissions to 775, which was the default of the
~/.phoenix directory, everything works just fine although the initial
load does seem to take forever. At least that's what it took for me to
get it to work.

Craig