[gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Sorry about the noise, but is it just me or has version 3.6.12 of 
Mozilla Firerox lost its Back and Forward arrow buttons? Here I just get 
a drop-down box with a list of visited pages.

Perversely enough, although I use the keyboard much more than the mouse, 
this change has annoyed me enough to cause me to "emerge -e firefox", 
which took hours, to see if that would bring the arrows back. No dice.

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Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Philip Webb]

101209 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> has Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12 lost its Back and Forward arrow buttons?
> Here I just get a drop-down box with a list of visited pages.

no problem here with that version installed 101128 .

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 09.12.2010 12:07, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> Hello list,
> 
> Sorry about the noise, but is it just me or has version 3.6.12 of 
> Mozilla Firerox lost its Back and Forward arrow buttons? Here I just get 
> a drop-down box with a list of visited pages.
> 
> Perversely enough, although I use the keyboard much more than the mouse, 
> this change has annoyed me enough to cause me to "emerge -e firefox", 
> which took hours, to see if that would bring the arrows back. No dice.
> 

Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and maybe
log-out/log-in.


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 14:32:57 Florian Philipp wrote:

> Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and maybe
> log-out/log-in.

I'm not aware of having a desktop theme. I certainly haven't changed 
anything in that department.

I may have to resort to deleting my user and creating another one. That 
is going to be one large pain.

Meanwhile I'm playing with Chrome instead.

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Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 09 December 2010 14:32:57 Florian Philipp wrote:
>
>    
>> Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and maybe
>> log-out/log-in.
>>      
> I'm not aware of having a desktop theme. I certainly haven't changed
> anything in that department.
>
> I may have to resort to deleting my user and creating another one. That
> is going to be one large pain.
>
> Meanwhile I'm playing with Chrome instead.
>
>    

Just rename it to .old then let it create a new one.  If it works, then 
you know where to start.  If it doesn't, delete the one it just created 
and remove the .old and try something else.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 10.12.2010 01:26, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> On Thursday 09 December 2010 14:32:57 Florian Philipp wrote:
> 
>> Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and maybe
>> log-out/log-in.
> 
> I'm not aware of having a desktop theme. I certainly haven't changed 
> anything in that department.
> 
> I may have to resort to deleting my user and creating another one. That 
> is going to be one large pain.
> 

Before you do this, why don't you verify that is has to do with your
user account, first?

1. Create a new user account and check how Firefox looks in that account.

2. Move your Firefox profile (~/.mozilla/firefox) to some other location
and check how Firefox looks then.


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 11 December 2010 11:40:56 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 10.12.2010 01:26, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> > On Thursday 09 December 2010 14:32:57 Florian Philipp wrote:
> >> Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and
> >> maybe log-out/log-in.
> > 
> > I'm not aware of having a desktop theme. I certainly haven't
> > changed anything in that department.
> > 
> > I may have to resort to deleting my user and creating another one.
> > That is going to be one large pain.
> 
> Before you do this, why don't you verify that is has to do with your
> user account, first?
> 
> 1. Create a new user account and check how Firefox looks in that
> account.
> 
> 2. Move your Firefox profile (~/.mozilla/firefox) to some other
> location and check how Firefox looks then.

Yes, I did intend to go step-wise. In fact I had the same absence of 
arrows in both those cases, so it's a feature of Firefox rather than my 
config.

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Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Klaus Müller]

Am 09.12.10 15:32, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 09.12.2010 12:07, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> Sorry about the noise, but is it just me or has version 3.6.12 of 
>> Mozilla Firerox lost its Back and Forward arrow buttons? Here I just get 
>> a drop-down box with a list of visited pages.
>>
>> Perversely enough, although I use the keyboard much more than the mouse, 
>> this change has annoyed me enough to cause me to "emerge -e firefox", 
>> which took hours, to see if that would bring the arrows back. No dice.
>>
> 
> Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and maybe
> log-out/log-in.
> 
These buttons are not part of a desktop theme afaik.
Try to install a different firefox theme from https://addons.mozilla.org .

hth
mk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday 12 December 2010 16:09:41 Klaus Müller wrote:

> Try [installing] a different firefox theme from
> https://addons.mozilla.org

But I've already tried a vanilla setup by creating a test user, and 
separately by moving my own .mozilla directory elsewhere. In neither 
case did I have any themes installed but I still had no arrow buttons.

I've now removed all themes from my standard user and again I have no 
arrow buttons. Thanks anyway, but this is not a theme problem.

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Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Urs Schutz]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:38:06 +0000
Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 12 December 2010 16:09:41 Klaus Müller wrote:
> 
> > Try [installing] a different firefox theme from
> > https://addons.mozilla.org
> 
> But I've already tried a vanilla setup by creating a test
> user, and separately by moving my own .mozilla directory
> elsewhere. In neither case did I have any themes
> installed but I still had no arrow buttons.
> 
> I've now removed all themes from my standard user and
> again I have no arrow buttons. Thanks anyway, but this is
> not a theme problem.
> 

Just a crazy «back to basics» idea: 
Did you try to use the configuration dialog for the Menu
bar / Navigation toolbar / Bookmarks toolbar? If not, please
right mouse click on the «STOP» button, and choose
«Customize...»). 
This opens the «Customize Toolbar» window for the toolbars,
and you can drag and drop the items from this window to the
toolbars.
Do you see the Back- and Forward arrows inside the
«Customize Toolbar» Window? If yes, then just drag-drop them
where you like them. 
Or use the «Restore default set» button.
If the arrows do not appear, I am without any more ideas.

Urs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 13 December 2010 14:02:38 Urs Schutz wrote:

> Did you try to use the configuration dialog for the Menu
> bar / Navigation toolbar / Bookmarks toolbar? If not, please
> right mouse click on the «STOP» button, and choose
> «Customize...»).

I used a different route to the same dialogue.

> Do you see the Back- and Forward arrows inside the
> «Customize Toolbar» Window?

Nope.

> Or use the «Restore default set» button.
> If the arrows do not appear, I am without any more ideas.

They haven't, and I'm stumped too. Thanks for the idea though.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 13 December 2010 16:43:10 I wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2010 14:02:38 Urs Schutz wrote:
> > Did you try to use the configuration dialog for the Menu
> > bar / Navigation toolbar / Bookmarks toolbar? If not, please
> > right mouse click on the «STOP» button, and choose
> > «Customize...»).
> 
> I used a different route to the same dialogue.
> 
> > Do you see the Back- and Forward arrows inside the
> > «Customize Toolbar» Window?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> > Or use the «Restore default set» button.
> > If the arrows do not appear, I am without any more ideas.
> 
> They haven't, and I'm stumped too. Thanks for the idea though.

Well, what do you know? My arrow buttons have just come back. The only 
relevant thing I've emerged today is  x11-libs/gtk+-2.22.1-r1. I think 
that's where I smell a rat.

It hasn't helped with my KDM problem though.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.