On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:29 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:18:47 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:12 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > If by 'empty profile' you mean that I should clear the .iceweasel > >> > file & start over...No. I can do that & will , however I see others > >> > are also having some issues related to plugins & flash players & I > >> > suspect some of my issues are also related to that. I will try this & > >> > post the response. > >> > >> You can just "rename" your current profile, so you do not lose your > >> settings. Rename it and start Icewasel, it will auto-create and empty > >> one. > >> > >> > > odd but there was no .iceweasel only .mozilla... > > Yes, "~/.mozilla" is where the user profile and files are located. > Renaming that folder should be enough to get a clean environment (no user > plugins, no settings... just the defaults). > > > I decided to take the nuclear approach & dekleted all > > of the browsers expect Ephiphany & all the directories I.E a clean new > > install. Guess what the same problem is still there in iceweasel only! > > NO plugins & no extensions just iceweasel & mozplugger. Any other > > ideas?? > > Wow. Did you purge the package after removing it? Yep Nothing at all left incl flash players & all plugins & addons.
> > Anyway, you can try to launch the browser from command line to check for > any errors you may get :-? > > Another test (if you are using 32 bits OS) could be downloading Firefox > directly form Mozilla site and run the upstream version (no installation > needed, just click and run). > > Does Epiphany experiment the same behaviour? I don't remember if you No it does not seem to. > already say so... > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón _____________________ In line with nuking iceweasel...I downloaded the new FireFox 4 beta and did a simple local single user install to my home directory. downloaded the new adobe flash player 10.xx from adobe & likewise created a plugins dir in the local install: copied the driver there & VOILA all works & BLAZING fast. I will use it like this until the software folks catch up to my hardware system. Its a beast running a 6core AMD 64 bit processor with twin 2GB ATI video cards running in crossfire mode. Thanks for all the advice. BTW I'm running a mixed squeeze/sid system...Lots of room for issues. LOL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1284589110.7363.8.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.info