I have a problem with Thunderbird that I think may be similar to the
Firefox f-up...
For quite a long time, I have had to run it in safe mode because an
extension got corrupted, I couldn't remove it and although I followed
everyone's tips and I fooled with uninstalls/ reinstalls, profiles etc I
never could fix it. I discussed it with the list at the time but
finally gave up & just launch in safe mode.
Now I just bought a new XP Pro computer and will be shifting my mail
over to the new machine.
I suspect my the profile will be involved in such a transition and I
don't want to move my tbird problem from one computer to another. How
would I best avoid that?
db
John DeCarlo wrote:
On 7/27/07, Harvey Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Before I figured that out, though, I tried uninstalling Firefox and
downloading it anew. I tried that a couple times, but when the program
started up, I could see it was the version I thought I¹d trashed. Just
for
reference, why couldn¹t I install a fresh copy of Firefox?
1. How do you know it was the version you thought you trashed?
2. Weren't you installing the same version anyway (presumably the most
recent, 2.0.0.5)?
3. You are probably confusing the profile or configuration with the
software. You can change the Firefox software and keep the same profile,
with the same plugins, bookmarks, history, etc.
That's why Tom was trying to get you to run Firefox with a new profile, so
you could see if it was a problem with your configuration / profile. As you
say, all too often it is a plugin, or a large bookmarks file, or some
configuration change that is recorded in prefs.js or user.js that messed you
up. So creating a new profile will let you compare a vanilla setup with
your regular one.
In Linux, your Firefox profile is typically in a hidden directory.
Unfortunately, some distributions put things in "special" locations, but if
you are using the downloaded version, it will look in .mozilla/firefox/...
So renaming .mozilla to .mozilla-old or the like will get your profile stuff
out of the way and force Firefox to create a new one.
This is my best guess, given your cryptic description.
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