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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:04:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909031204.43153.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890909030248l152a6a84s8bf55a3f210e4e86@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 03 September 2009 11:48:40 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a
> certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an
> email in gmail, firefox hangs.  I have tried a few experiments, with no
> success.  This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git
>  control for several months.
> 
> With any file manager this directory is accessible.  With Konqueror, it is
> likewise accessible.  Only with Firefox and Epiphany, as far as I can tell,
> is this happening.

Lets eliminate the obvious first - move your existing mozilla profile out of 
the way and try again. Does the problem persist?

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03  9:48 [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory Alan E. Davis
2009-09-03 10:04 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-09-03 15:13 ` Stroller
2009-09-03 21:56   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-09-03 23:55     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-09-04  7:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-03 22:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt

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