I have managed to fix this issue myself although exactly what was wrong I can only speculate...
A while ago i manually installed one of the betas for firefox 3 (before upgrading to Hardy) I installed this alongside firefox 2 so I could run both versions. Then upon upgrading to Hardy the Firefox 3 b5 just appeared to work so i removed my shortcut to the old beta (without deleting the install) and carried on. It was only when i installed the upgrade to RC1 that the problems shown appeared for me. Remembering this today I did a "whereis firefox" in a terminal and got the following: whereis firefox firefox: /usr/bin/firefox /etc/firefox /usr/lib/firefox /usr/share/firefox I decided to cleanse my system of all things firefox and start again, therefore i went into synaptic and removed all firefox items . Afterwards i went to each of the directories listed above and deleted everything.. I also searched each of areas for firefox and deleted several firefox-3.0 folders and mozilla plugins etc.. Therefore my system had no ref to any firefox folders. Next I went back into synaptic and ticked the firefox package (which also installs firefox-3) after this completed firefox now works fine for me. I can only hypothesize that my previous manual install of a firefox 3 beta was screwing something up. I recommend that anyone that has this issue remove all firefox packages and folders from there system and re- installing. I can only say this worked for me and therefore I believe that this is not a bug in the package but a config issue. A big thanks to Alex and anyone else that contributed to this bug report. -- No location bar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238710 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs