From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HMO9K-00084Q-WB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:43:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1SCg6u1005253; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:42:06 GMT Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1SCbk8S000591 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:37:46 GMT Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF419CA; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:37:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:37:43 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox (mis)behavior Message-ID: <20070228073743.3e1bfda5@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20070228040934.GA4335@waltdnes.org> References: <20070227191210.03f08bb1@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20070228040934.GA4335@waltdnes.org> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2cvs48 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e35b491d-8003-47ef-ac28-724d77d004ca X-Archives-Hash: b8a118ad8a2cc4dd939b80df42b0fef4 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/ > > 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 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list