Firefox 3.0.6 broken after "security update" or?

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#1

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

#2

Try going into yast and check update on the firefox package. It will reinstall it. Not sure why this happened but I updated mine and its fine.

#3

I did as you recommended but it is still broken. Don’t know how to deal with this. Anyone else have an Idea or have this problem?

#4

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.

#5

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.

#6

Hi
Your bookmarks live down in ~/.mozilla directory so you can always
recover a copy from here. Have you tried starting in safe-mode


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.

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#7

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.

#8

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.