I installed the Mozilla Firefox Security update via the “Updater Applet”
today. Now I can’t access my preferences or save links/files. Trying to
launch “preferences” open a blank box in firefox.
I also installed KDE4 yesterday and that may have done it too. I am
running KDE 3.5 and don’t recall if I saved any files with Mozilla after
I added KDE4 but it did wipe out some icons in KDE 3.5 and I have to fix
that after I decided KDE4 was not for me and booted back to KDE 3.5
Trying to access “downthem all” as I was trying open any thing. I got
this in a popup,
XML Parsing Error:uindefined entity
Location:chrome://dta/content/dta/select.xul
Line Number 65, Colimn 3:
------------------------------^
<toolbar class=“finddiles” chromdir=&local.dir;">
What am I supposed to do for a real browser as it seems Mozilla is not
ever going to work again.
This stuff is beyond me I am just a desktop user and stuff is supposed
to just work with easily found fixes.
Now it will not even launch
when I attempt it I get this popup. [JavaScript Application] Error
launching browser window. no XBL binding for browser
:’(
A “security update” should not do this. This is WHY many people ignore
security updates. Konqueror is NOT my idea of browser. I installed Opera
too but I don’t like the interface.
Looks like all my preferences,cookies and bookmarks are useless now.
malcolmlewis;1942689 Wrote:
> Hi
> Your bookmarks live down in ~/.mozilla directory so you can always
> recover a copy from here. Have you tried starting in safe-mode
> >
Code:
> >
> firefox -safe-mode
>
> >
> BTW I have three machines here that updated firefox, all are working
> fine. Maybe it was a combination of your other updates.
>
> –
> Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
> openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
> up 1 day 16:04, 3 users, load average: 0.37, 0.17, 0.11
> GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.29
I am aware of that hidden directory but If I can not even launch the
browser now that does me no good really. As it stands now I can’t even
get it to run due to that JAVA error. After a bit I am going to restart
my KDE session and see if that changes things at all.
Indeed there was a “lock” of some type from the KDE session. Restarting
the KDE session allowed the update to process and firefox launched
normally with all features.