firefox problem

[Jaime Alvarez]

David Smith wrote:

>I had a similar problem this morning after I installed Firefox from the
>Mozilla website. I found that it would sit there and then not start at
>all. To fix mine I just renamed my .mozilla directory to
>.mozilla_backup. This seemed to have fixed it. Seems that this version
>of firefox is different. For example it had import my bookmarks etc.
>Hope that helps.
>David
>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:00, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
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>>I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora Core 1.
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>>Jaime
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>>>Re: firefox problem
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>>>From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org>
>>> 
>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
>>> 
>>>Subject: Re: firefox problem
>>> 
>>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400
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>>>Jaime Alvarez wrote:
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>>>>I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version
>>>>yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to
>>>>install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the original
>>>>mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works
>>>>fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update was needed
>>>>and i agreed to it.
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions?
>>>>
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>>>it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. ( installation
>>>of XFree86 )
>>>
>>>FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list to see
>>>if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be possible )
>>>installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86 packages in
>>>favor of the Xorg packages.
>>>
>>>-- 
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Linux user because anything else is just insane.
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I renamed my .mozilla directory, and when i started firefox it prompted 
me for importing dtaa from older versions, but then it didn't work (i 
trid both, importing and not importing)

In my opinion, it is very strange that mozilla 1.4.1 doesn't start either...