Mysterious error on Firefox startup

[Brendan McEnaney]

taharka wrote:

> Claude Jones wrote:
>
>> That's a lot of extensions! FWIW, recently, after a Firefox upgrade, 
>> 1.0.4>1.0.6, I experienced different problems with Firefox. Very 
>> strange behaviors such as the personal toolbar not appearing, the 
>> favorites sidebar not appearing at first, and having to close/open 
>> the sidebar to get  the list, and other things. I ended up removing 
>> my three extensions, and reinstalling them, and that cured what ailed 
>> me.  
>>
> You can also start firefox in "safe mode", in order to pin down 
> problematic extensions quickly/easily ;-)

I checked 'man firefox' and didn't see an option for safe mode. How /do/ 
you do that?

>
> taharka
>
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>
Thanks for chirping in Claude and taharka. For now I guess I'll take the 
lazy route and just backup and nuke my ~/.mozilla/firefox directory so I 
can start configuring and adding extensions from scratch.  Hold on a 
second while I try that................Ok, it does indeed start without 
the error in its' virginal state. I'll start adding the extensions back 
one at a time and post back if I discover the culprit. (I'll notify the 
author(s) as well.)

thanks again.

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