Firefox/facebook broke

[Robert Wuest]

After much messing around, turns out things straighten themselves out if 
I just rm * the contents of the cache directory.

Now if I could only get google earth to work again (getting the "no 
driver" message).

Robert

On 09/19/2009 06:45 AM, Robert Wuest wrote:
> After I updated yesterday (about 500 M worth), 2 things have broken:
>
> When using facebook with firefox, several of the icon/button thingies 
> at the bottom of the window (facebook icons, not firefox) no longer 
> contain a visible icon.  If I mouse over where they should be, the 
> label (Photos, Groups, Events, etc.) does appear above them and the 
> button space changes color.  Clicking in them does function 
> correctly.  That's on the lower left side of the facebook page.
>
> On the right side, there is are chat and notifications "buttons".  The 
> chat button is completely non-functional and the notification button 
> will only take me to the full notifications page, not to the pop-up 
> that used to be there (which had a button to take you to the full 
> page).  One other thing: The chat button is showing me Offline, but I 
> can open facebook with konquerer and go online then close konquerer 
> and refresh the page in firefox and it shows me online with the number 
> of friends that are also online, but I still cannot access the chat 
> popup to either chat or go offline (and of course reversing the 
> process using konquerer works to go offline).
>
> I have keepcache=1 in my yum.conf file, so I was able to revert the 
> firefox/xulrunner/yelp updates back to the previous (functioning) 
> version with 'sudo rpm -U --oldpackage 
> xulrunner-1.9.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm 
> xulrunner-devel-1.9.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm 
> yelp-2.26.0-6.fc11.x86_64.rpm' to no avail.  So it's not firefox.  And 
> I haven't a clue what else could be causing it.  Anyone got any hints?
>
> Robert
>