Firefox Closing After Opening

I'm a newbie to linux after being heavily involved with windows. Anyway does anybody know why firefox shuts down immediatley after opening. I've just installed 10.3 and everything was working fine, until one day I tried to open the application and now it won't remain open.

Anybody else have the same problem. blink.gif

Try reinstalling through yast or running from a console/terminal see if it gives you any errors.

Try reinstalling through yast or running from a console/terminal see if it gives you any errors.
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Thanks FeatherMonkey - I managed to work out how to uninstall and then re-install and still application failed. Run firefox from command line and got the following error - it seems the ebay companion add-on extension is causing some sort of issue. Do you know how I might be able to get around this or remove the firefox extension. Thanks

ILURE) [nsIPasswordManagerInternal.findPasswordEntry]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (N S_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://netusageitem/content/usagelib .js :: nuLoadPass :: line 48" data: no]
NETUSAGE >>> profile-change-teardown
SOFTFAIL [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FA ILURE) [nsIPasswordManagerInternal.findPasswordEntry]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (N S_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://netusageitem/content/usagelib .js :: nuLoadPass :: line 48" data: no]
>>>> NUI CREATED
NETUSAGE >>> XXXX init: 0
NETUSAGE >>> extensions.netusage.0.
NETUSAGE >>> gp au
NETUSAGE >>> gp offpeakstarttime
NETUSAGE >>> gp isptz
NETUSAGE >>> gp offpeakendtime
NETUSAGE >>> stepProcess() step 0
NETUSAGE >>> process step command
NETUSAGE >>> OPEN GETBASIC;https://members.adam.com.au/um1.5/usage.xml
NETUSAGE >>> resumeProcess done step 0
NETUSAGE >>> resumeProcess end
[Wed, 28 May 2008 13:50:18 GMT] ERROR EbayUserService.getMyEBay onError: 1
/usr/bin/firefox: line 208: 6012 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@"

Been a while since I've done it but yes some extensions do cause unusual behavior.

Think you got to Firefox -> Tools -> Add ons -> Highlight extensions

Should be able to remove it, as for working around it maybe try the extension author see what they say after that I guess it would be a bug report for Firefox. Though does look like a java problem to my limited knowledge.

I believe that you can remove the extension in File manager Show hidden files /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/(default file type number)/extensions/(file random number)/ remove the .jar files.

It might at least get you up on Firefox. Barring that you would need to remove the whole default folder and recreate by running firefox from command line. You would lose any bookmarks and preferences that way so I hope you have a list of them saved.

BTW: rename or at least save in wastebasket any files you delete so that you can restore if necessary.

I believe that you can remove the extension in File manager Show hidden files /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/(default file type number)/extensions/(file random number)/ remove the .jar files.

It might at least get you up on Firefox. Barring that you would need to remove the whole default folder and recreate by running firefox from command line. You would lose any bookmarks and preferences that way so I hope you have a list of them saved.

BTW: rename or at least save in wastebasket any files you delete so that you can restore if necessary.
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Thanks guys - I had to remove all the contents of the extensions folder for firefox to work. I have since re-installed the ebay companon add-on and everything is fine. I think the install to the add-on got corrupted somehow when I performed several add-ons at once without restarting firefox in between each add-on. Can't prove this but that's the closest thing that I could come to as root cause.

Glad you got it working!