Guest styleruk Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Hi I can't seem to get firefox to run from the start bar any more. I tried upgrading to 2.0, nothing. Then I tried updating Mandriva and still nothing. My curser turns into the bouncing firefox logo for a while, then stops and nothing happens. Can someone guide me into giving the right information to find out what is wrong here, or even better, let me know how to solve it. Regards Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I would try to start firefox from the command line. If you do this, error messages will appear on the terminal screen that should help define what the problem is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Got the same problem (from time to time), never managed to understand why or to find when the problem was triggered Can you start from a command-line terminal by typing mozilla-firefox If you really want to help with that you need to give - kernel version - mandy version - which windows maanger kde? - amount of memory any rules you can find out about when problem happens I have no solution (use command line or click again, or install a new icone & link) I installed firefox from the tar.gz in another directory so I have 2 firefox binaries (and icones) I cannot tell you if any one link is more buggy at start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Two small things you can try. When I have encountered similar problem, I have found that either or both have fixed the problem which usually occurred after updating, if it did occur. 1. Delete the Firefox icon on the panel (what you are calling the start bar) and then reinstall it on the panel by right clicking on the panel and select Add application to the Panel ....select Internet........Web Browsers ....then Firefox. 2. Open konqueror, select.... View...... then...... Show hidden folders. Look for .Mozilla and delete it. You will need to redo your settings when you reopen Firefox. Hope it helps. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 So I run into this problem a lot. Go to your .mozilla/firefox directory. Look for two files .parentlock and lock If only one is present delete it, otherwise delete them both. Now try restarting it. This also works for Thunderbird. This happens a lot to me regardless of how I treat Firefox. Good luck, Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest styleruk Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Aussiejon, That did the trick. I deleted the icon from the panel (yes sorry...panel!), then deleted all of .mozilla. Job done....for now. Thanks Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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