Hello John, The .mozilla directory should not matter. Its the firefox directory in the .mozilla directory which carries the mozilla-firefox profile. Removing .mozilla directory would have meant moving my Seamonkey profile in the process, which didn't seem to be the root of the problem.
Firefox is running for me now. I did apt-get --purge remove mozilla-firefox. And it told me that purging was not complete as some directories were not empty. I was confused because the plugins directory wasn't empty as I had removed the livehttpheaders and diggler extensions I used with Firefox. But on further investigation I saw that Mozilla Seamonkey and Mozilla Firefox packages both use the same extensions packages. There were indications of a couple of extensions still listed(under extensions dir) which were working in Mozilla Seamonkey, but which were not listed in Mozilla Firefox (old version, 0.9.3). These extensions although not visible were still listed in the plugins directory. Its quite possible that they may have been diabled in one of the earlier upgrade of Firefox. So, I had to remove 'all' mozilla/firefox extensions and then reinstall Firefox. Got Firefox running and then again had to reinstall the few extensions to be able to use them!! Simply "disabling" an extension if it is not compatible with an upgrade is not a good idea. The user should be shown the complete list of extensions which are listed in the extensions folder (e.g. /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions) with an indicator that it is enabled or disabled. Although a better place for this suggestion would be Mozillazine, but I thought of writing here just for the record. Thanks, /KS Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]