apt-get remove mozilla-* && apt-get install galeon worked perfectly. 

Thanks David.

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 23:42, david s wrote:
> yeah, i had that a few weeks back after an apt-get upgrade.  couldn't
> track down the problem, but i solved it with an 'apt-get remove --purge
> mozilla' followed by an 'apt-get install mozilla'.  i tried the same
> trick with galeon first but with no effect so it looks like the problem
> is somewhere in mozilla.  i just chalked it up to the perils of running
> unstable...
> 
> david
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 22:14, Ian Hans Su wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > galeon has suddenly gone bonkers on my debian/unstable box. I don't
> > think I apt-get upgraded recently, so I don't think it's because of a
> > new version. But whenever I run galeon, it opens another window, which
> > opens another window, etc., ad infinitum. I've tried reinstalling and
> > deleting my config files, nothing works. If I close the window before it
> > opens another, the process stops, but if I try to load any URLs in the
> > (already opened) galeon windows then the window spawning starts again. 
> > 
> > mozilla on the other hand, doesn't work at all, nothing appears when I
> > run it but the memory footprint of the process grows and grows.
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone else was having these weird problems.
> > 
> > Ian.
> -- 
> david s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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