On Thursday 03 September 2009 11:48:40 Alan E. Davis wrote: > It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a > certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an > email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no > success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git > control for several months. > > With any file manager this directory is accessible. With Konqueror, it is > likewise accessible. Only with Firefox and Epiphany, as far as I can tell, > is this happening.
Lets eliminate the obvious first - move your existing mozilla profile out of the way and try again. Does the problem persist? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com