[New] How to really muck up firefox

[gary]

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).
> 
>   So of course, being an old hacker, I went through all the steps on the
> sun website, correllated them with Stanton's website and tried to edit
> my way out of it.  I don't think I made it any worse, but I certainly
> didn't improve the situation.  So, having worked on it from 2PM until
> 6AM this morning, and then beginning again at about 10AM until now, I
> have been hacking away at it.  I have decided to throw in the towel and
> ask for advice on how to fix my own personal rats nest.  I have
> considered backing up my local directory, all except the ".??*" files
> and directories, then reformatting and reloading linux from the DVD.
> But that seems a lot of work to fix what must be quite a bit simpler.
> My only problems (that I can see anyway) are the multimedia things and
> firefox.  How it, guys, any simple solutions for the mess I am in?  Take
> pity on an old fool noob?
> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 

 I'm guessing you need to get into .mozilla and clean out your firefox
folder???     -----gary