Firefox lost icons post FC3-->FC4 upgrade

[Matt Morgan]

On 10/17/05, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded from FC3 to FC4 following the (unofficial) yum upgrade
> instructions at
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
> which worked very well. But Firefox has lost all its toolbar icons,
> such as Back, Forward, Reload, etc., and the little "X" for closing
> the active tab. I can still work by displaying text rather than icons;
> and by hovering in the vicinity of where the "X" ought to be, I can
> get the button to highlight and close tabs.
>
> Uninstalling and reinstalling FF didn't change anything. Does anyone
> have any other suggestions?

The solution, sent to me off-list, was to move aside my firefox
settings directory (~/.mozilla/firefox), restart firefox to make a new
one, then cpoy back important files (like bookmarks.html and prefs.js;
there are others, like mimeTypes.rdf, but I didn't need them).

Thanks, Mike!