Firefox 3.5b4 from F11 -- Forward and Back buttons disabled

[Steven F. LeBrun]

On 06/28/2009 07:18 PM, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:59:19 -0400
> "Steven F. LeBrun"<steven at lebruns.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I did a clean install of Fedora 11 (32bit version) on my laptop.
>> After the install, I copied back my home directory from my previous
>> Fedora 10 install.  In other words, when I first ran Firefox 3.5b4,
>> it used the configuration files from the previous version of firefox.
>>
>> One of the problems that I am having with Firefox is that the Forward
>> and Back buttons are disabled as well as their menu equivalents.
>>
>> Running "firefox -safemode" from a command line still has the same
>> inability to go forward or backwards plus no error messages occurred
>> in the terminal window where Firefox was started.
>>
>> Is this a bug in Firefox or is there configuration change necessary?
>>
>>      
> What happens if you move the .mozilla directory in your home directory
> to .mozilla.bak and restart firefox (i.e. let it create a new home
> directory for itself)?
>
> It seems unlikely this is a bug in FF as I don't see this behavior in
> F11, though I am on x86_64.
>
>    

I did some playing around with Firefox since I posted the first message 
of this thread.  By process of elimination, I disabled the plug-ins that 
I was using until I found the one that was causing my forward/back 
disable problem.

The plug-in that was the problem was "Print Hint" version 0.33.  Once 
this plug-in was disabled, Firefox worked as expected.

Removing this plug-in also fixed my other Firefox problem.  When I 
clicked on a URL in Thunderbird, Firefox was opening an new window/tab 
but with nothing in it, including no location.  If I cut and pasted the 
same URL to Firefox, it displayed the page correctly.  Once the Print 
Hint plug-in was disabled, this feature worked as expected.


-- 
   Steven F. LeBrun

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are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy 
stories tell children that dragons can be killed."/
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