It could be that some settings have screwed up your firefox config. One thing to try is to basically let firefox start without any custom settings for your account.
To do this try runn the following from the command line "mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-old" then try rerunning firefox. It should then create a fresh .mozilla directory with default settings. If this does fix the problem then you did have some sort of settings problem. Of course any bookmarks or other customisations have moved into the .mozilla-old directory - you can then copy back the pertinent ones (like .mozilla-old/firefox/*/bookmarks.html) Regards, Martin On 2/28/07, Rosemary MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, This is my first post on this list so a bit of information I am brand new to Linux and have recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 I have had a lot of help from another Ubuntu user but I have a problem that has him (and me) baffled. Firefox is installed on my PC but when I click the icon to open it the cycling circular cursor shows up for about 10 - 15 seconds and then goes away with nothing happening. If I double-click and html file the same thing. I tried issuing the command firefox from terminal but nothing happened. A look in /var/log/messages shows no messages about firefox I removed Firefox and re-installed it from the web and it installed fine and shows an icon in the top panel but still i get the same problem. Can anyone assist please? Words of one syllable or less would be appreciated wit every step defined as I have no prrevious Linux experience. Cheers Stewart MacPherson ( using my wife's email account - hence the Rosemary) Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
-- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
