firefox back/forward icons disappeared

[Thomas Cameron]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:38 -0800, Skunk Worx wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:42:54PM -0800, Skunk Worx wrote:
> > 
> >>on a couple of my machines the firefox icons in the upper left of the UI 
> >>(for Back/Forward) have disappeared. All i get are skinny widgets with 
> >>the drop-down arrow--no left/right icons in the widgets.
> > 
> > 
> > Are you using the default theme?
> > 
> 
> 
> Yes it's the default. I tried installing another one through the mozilla 
> https: link in the UI and it pops up momemtarily then disappears from 
> the theme list. Only the default theme is there.
> 
> Appears user based. If I run X as root and launch firefox the icons are 
> there.
> 
> Remove/Reinstall makes no difference, neither does switchdesk back and 
> forth between kde and gnome.
> 
> My home directory is off NFS so I'll play with that tomorrow, also will 
> try making a local user account and see what happens.

Just for grins, what happens if you move your ~/.mozilla directory to
~/.mozilla.old and then start Firefox?  Is everything back to normal?

TC