YOU Firefox update breaks Ff on 9.3.

Hi,

The newest Firefox (from about 2 day ago) update broke my firefox on
SUSE 9.3. If I launch firefox from KDE, it never comes up! KSysGuard shows
the firefox sh and firefox-bin on, but in a "sleeping" state. if I launch
it from the command line I get a cryptic error message showing that it does
not see some libraries, which DO exist. "firefox -h" also results in an
error message.
The only way to use Firefox is to reinstall (downgrade) it to 1.01
available on the 9.3 DVD; and I'd really like to use the current version.
Anyone else experiencing this, and any ideas on how to fix it?

Thanks.

Ok, so this is really weird:

I downgraded Firefox and updated it again, this time it loaded fine. The
only problem is that for some reason, it can't find realplayer. Every time
I go to a page that has embedded ralplayer or open a rm file in firefox, it
gives me a error message concerning realplayer. I haven't changed
realplayer and when I downgraded Firefox to 1.0.1, realplayer worked fine!
The _really_ bizarre thing is that when I reboot the machine, Firefox
becomes unresponsive as described in the message above. That's really weird!

Any ideas are most welcome.

So, this (like many other problems) got fixed when I renamed the
".mozilla" directory and forced Firefox to recreate it.
Not really a solution, though, since I have no idea what went wrong in
the first place and how recreating all the personal settings fixed it.
Hope it helps someone.

ludvikengelbrekt@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The newest Firefox (from about 2 day ago) update broke my firefox on
> SUSE 9.3. If I launch firefox from KDE, it never comes up! KSysGuard shows
> the firefox sh and firefox-bin on, but in a "sleeping" state. if I launch
> it from the command line I get a cryptic error message showing that it does
> not see some libraries, which DO exist. "firefox -h" also results in an
> error message.
> The only way to use Firefox is to reinstall (downgrade) it to 1.01
> available on the 9.3 DVD; and I'd really like to use the current version.
> Anyone else experiencing this, and any ideas on how to fix it?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

I have one machine with suse9.3
(my server/firewall/Internet Gateway....)

I also got this update but don't use firefox on that machine very often,
but after reading this, I tested , and it was working fine.

Do ldd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/firefox-bin
and check if something is missing.

Open aboutlugins and see if your plugins looks ok,
and check the links in /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/

If you can't find the problem, please post the errors.

/birger

Hi, and thanks for your reply
I started a new thread in the general applications forum, since the library
dependency got solved by (it seems) renaminig .mozilla/.
The strange thing that persists though is that the firefox.sh script
won't launch Firefox, UNTIL I run firefox-bin _once_. After that firefox.sh
runs ok, but Firefox started from the shell script still won't play realmedia

> Open aboutlugins and see if your plugins looks ok,
> and check the links in /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/

Thanks for this tip, but all the settings look the same whether I run
firefox.sh of firefox-bin; realplayer still won't play with firefox.sh.
Very strange.

I think I'll change all my icons to link to firefox-bin instead (and wait
for 10.3 even more eagerly) .