[Novalug] firefox update weirdness

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Tue Jul 31 15:50:27 EDT 2007


Try this...

- Close firefox
- In your home directory, renaming the mozilla/firefox directory that
stores your configurations
- Start firefox (it should recreate the directory with defaults)

Ken


On Tue, July 31, 2007 15:48, Ed James wrote:
> Don,
>
>     That's a clue.  Poking around now looking for .rc, config, etc type
> files.  Best guess is a change in expected directory structure somewhere.
> Gonna try real hard not to break Mozilla while I'm at it. :P
>
>     Annoying part is not knowing yet if it's a change in Firefox, or GTK+,
> or glib, or ??? that's the real problem, since I don't have source code
> to drill down into, and dl-ing source code to look at is problematic
> since I'd never be sure that the source matches the executables I have
> now.
>
>     And Yes, real programmers compile from source - but I'm trying to
> learn to be a wuss and failing miserably.
>
> EJ
>
> Quoting Dan Arico <dan_arico@aricosystems.com>:
> ...
>> I can tell you this much. You get those boxes when it can't display the
>> character set that it's supposed to be using. For some reason, it
>> doesn't know the path to your fonts. Something was moved or deleted or
>> Firefox is simply pointing to the wrong place.
>
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