--- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Net Llama wrote: > > --- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Net Llama wrote: > >>However, IIRC, I needed to re-create my profile not too long ago. > Just > >> > > > > Recreate it because mozilla wouldn't run, or just for the hell of > it? > > Crashes reading mail/news. Probly segfaults, but who knows with > Winders... Ordinarily, just deleting the .msf files fixes things, but > that didn't work. I re-created the profile and backed up to a known > good > nightly. After a couple of days, I tried a new nightly and everything > was fine. > > Not the sort of thing I'd expect to need to do when using milestone > releases, but it's not unheard of.
Indeed, however the problems i'm seeing aren't really following any pattern, and mail & news seems to actually work fine. Its just websites that are causing the beast to tank at random. > When you updated to 0.9.7, did you remove 0.9.6 completely or just > untar > the files on top of wherever you put 0.9.6? When I update my > nightlies, > I remove the old one completely, first. I rarely have problems. I always install from the tarball. The procedure that i've come to use (for at least the past 6 or 7 releases) is: 1) Move the entire existing install to a safe location 2) Untar/extract the new version 3) Copy over the contents of the old install's plugin directory to the new install's plugin directory. 4) Run the new mozilla. If its healthy, delete the previous version. If its unhealthy, delete the new version, and copy back the old to its original location > If you don't wanna do the new profile thing, try deleting the .msf > files > and the Cache. Should accomplish the same thing. OK, did that. But who knows how easily i'll be able to detect a change. Like i said, this is very random. > >>backup your mail files and bookmarks.html file and you can just copy > > >>them into your new profile. > >>You could also try changing your chrome. Occasionally that fixes > >> > > > > Errr...changing the chrome? Do you mean the Modern/Classic thing? > > > > > Yep. Occasionally fixes things. Don't know why. Some kinda XUL thing. That was one very weird thing that happened. In the past, whenever i upgraded to a newer version of Mozilla, it kept my previous Skin preference. With the upgrade to 0.9.7 it seemed to forget, and defaulted me back to a very broken Classic. I simply switched it back to Modern, and all was fine, but that was quite odd. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
