[gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior

[gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior

[David Relson]

Yesterday monring, out of curiosity, I rebuilt firefox with the
mozbranding flag.  Curiously, bookmarks weren't working.  I could click
on "Bookmarks" and see the proper list, but efforts to open any of them
failed without any messages and without the screen changing.
"Organize bookmarks" brings up a blank page (lacking bookmarks).

Yesterday evening I learned that a new ebuild (firefox-2.0.0.2) was
available, so I emerged that (without the mozbranding flag).  Now I
have Bon Echo and the same bookmark mis-behavior.

My bookmark file, i.e.
~/.mozilla/firefox/fad468fx.default/bookmarks.html seems to be intact
and is accessible as file:///home/relson/...

As an additional detail, after loading a page, the busy (whirly) icon
in firefox's upper right corner is busy whirling.  AFAICT it's not
going to stop.

Has anyone seen this behavior?  Does anyone know what to to about it?

Regards,

David
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior

[Walter Dnes]

  Here's a workaround that seems to help in a lot of cases...

1) Shut down all instances of Firefox

2) rename your profile directory.  It usually looks something like
~/.mozilla/firefox/<gobbledeygook>

3) Start Firefox again.  It'll create a new profile.

  Firefox has occasional problems when the profile from an older version
won't work for the new version.  You should be able to copy or import
the bookmarks file from the old format.  But you'll have to do your
settings all over again.

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior

[David Relson]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:09:34 -0500
Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Here's a workaround that seems to help in a lot of cases...
> 
> 1) Shut down all instances of Firefox
> 
> 2) rename your profile directory.  It usually looks something like
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<gobbledeygook>
> 
> 3) Start Firefox again.  It'll create a new profile.
> 
>   Firefox has occasional problems when the profile from an older
> version won't work for the new version.  You should be able to copy
> or import the bookmarks file from the old format.  But you'll have to
> do your settings all over again.

Walter,

Renaming the <gobbledeygook> directory didn't
help, but renaming ~/.mozilla did!

Next, there's the issue of saved passwords.  Do you know which file
they're in?

Thanks for the tip.  

Regards,

David

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007, David Relson wrote:
> Renaming the <gobbledeygook> directory didn't
> help, but renaming ~/.mozilla did!
>
> Next, there's the issue of saved passwords.  Do you know which
> file they're in?

The files you want are:
	bookmarks.html
	cert8.db
	cookies.txt
	hostperm.1
	key3.db
	signons.txt

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[gentoo-user] Re: firefox (mis)behavior

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In <news:20070228073743.3e1bfda5@osage.osagesoftware.com>,
David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> Renaming the <gobbledeygook> directory didn't
> help, but renaming ~/.mozilla did!
> 
> Next, there's the issue of saved passwords.  Do you know which file
> they're in?

The encrypted passwords are in signons.txt and/or signons2.txt and the
key for decrypting them is in key3db.

You might want to have a look at
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder#Files_and_folders_in_the_profile>
for other things you might want to keep.

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:37:43AM -0500, David Relson wrote

> Next, there's the issue of saved passwords.  Do you know which file
> they're in?
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  

  I see that others have already answered that specific question.  In
case you need to move more files over, there's a mozillazine knowledge
base article about that at...
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile

  When you do move stuff over, backup your "original new" settings, in
case you copy over the corrupted file that caused you problems with
Firefox in the first place.

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