Thank you all! Now I can run firefox. Deleting the .mozilla folder worked. :D
On May 4, 4:21 pm, SATA <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Bijay Rai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Step 3 also didn't work. Step 2 when run as normal user didn't work, but > > when run as root (prefixing the command with sudo) did run firefox. But I > > had to issue the command as sudo everytime i wanted to run firefox, which is > > not practical. when run in terminal, nothing is shown, no error messages, no > > warnings, nothing. > > As bibek already mentioned, > just remove (move/rename) the .mozilla directory in your home-directory and > start the firefox. Follow the following steps: > > STEP 1: Close the firefox if open. > STEP 2: Open a terminal and run this command: > rm -r ./.mozilla > STEP 3: Open mozilla as usual. > > Warning: You will loose all your bookmarks and personal settings of firefox. > > > > > > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, SATA <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Bijay Rai <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> Steps 1 and 2 didn't work for me. let's see what happens with step 3. > > >> Bijay, If it doesnt work normally then 1 and 2 won't solve ur problem > >> either. Just paste the log (if any), what you got in terminal while running > >> 1 and 2. It will help others to diagonise the problem and provide u the > >> solution. > > >>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Suvash Thapaliya <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>> 1) try running from a terminal and see what the error is > >>>> OR > >>>> 2) try running this 'firefox -profilemanager' > >>>> OR > >>>> 3) reinstall firefox ( synaptic or aptitufe or apt-get ) > > >>>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Bijay Rai > >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>>> on my acer travelmate 5730 (Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor, 2GB DDR2, > >>>>> 320GB HDD) i've been unable to run firefox in ubuntu. i have upgraded > >>>>> the > >>>>> ubuntu 8.10 on the laptop to 9.04 this morning. and it dual-boots with > >>>>> Windows Vista. The upgrade was successful but still i can't run > >>>>> firefox. i > >>>>> googled a couple of times but couldn't find any exact solution to this > >>>>> problem. does anyone know how to rectify this problem? > > >>>>> bijay > > >>> -- > >>> Bijay Rai > >>> Dharan, Sunsari > > >> -- > >> With Regards, > >> Suraj Sapkota > >> सुरज सापकोटा > > > -- > > Bijay Rai > > Dharan, Sunsari > > -- > With Regards, > Suraj Sapkota > सुरज सापकोटा --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
