[New] How to really muck up firefox

[Ian Malone]

gary wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 16:00 -0800, Les wrote:
>> I'm still in there swinging, but I hab a vad cod and cand dink
>> strait....;-)
>>
>> I tried installing the new firefox, and it went badly.  Next I tried to
>> get it working by updating the Java with the sun linux jre.  That mucked
>> it up worse.  Then I wanted to go back to the original.  Even worse,
>> because now neither version recognized any of the media stuff, not
>> flash, not mplayer, not java NADA!
>>
>>   OK, I thought, just uninstall the works, then eliminate the new
>> firefox files, and finally reinstall the whole Java, mplayer, totem,
>> etc.  So, I opened the add/remove software and removed all the stuff
>> that said Java, and accepted uninstalling all related packages, thinking
>> that when I reinstalled them via the same mechanism, everything would
>> come back.
>>
>>   Now nothing at all works in the old version of firefox (except basic
>> HTML and it parses badly, which seems to be a problem for javascript
>> anyway, since it doesn't do well with lines that have been commented out
>> with "#" this is typically a compiler error where the standard parse
>> string has left "#" out of the single char string for parsing).
>>
>>
>>
> 
>  I'm guessing you need to get into .mozilla and clean out your firefox
> folder???     -----gary
> 

Sounds like a possibility. I'd add that FF has very little to do with
Java except as a plugin (JavaScript being a different language, and
FF's JS interpreter is a core part of Mozilla).  Why the upgrade to
2.0 wouldn't work I don't know, but I usually install or run binary
packages in ~/opt to avoid damaging packed components.

-- 
imalone