Firefox 3.5 will not start

clodhopper · 2009-08-12 14:52:38

Mozilla have suggestions in their faq if firefox will not start. I assume you have checked those out, they include trying;

firefox -P
firefox -safe-mode
LD_PRELOAD= firefox

And many suggest to rename ~/.mozilla to say ~/mozilla-saved and trying the above In other words with an clean profile.

But seems likely there is more than one problem going on ! . I would hate to think that if firefox branded is working OK for some then maybe there is a minor problem with Arch packaging for shiretoko ? . As always i would not like to criticise any Arch package given the work/hours Arch dev's put into this distro on all our behalf.

BW Chris.

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flamelab · 2009-08-12 15:00:10

Yeah, they say that, but it won't load here with any argument.

I really don't know what happened, what's going on ?

clodhopper · 2009-08-12 15:08:08

flamelab wrote:

Yeah, they say that, but it won't load here with any argument.
I really don't know what happened, what's going on ?

As a matter of interest have you tried epiphany or firefox branded ? . The PRELOAD work round is good for some but then if there is a another prob ie with arch shiretoko package then maybe trying above would determine that.

flamelab · 2009-08-12 15:49:23

Epiphany starts OK. Both Firefox from extra and branded, won't start.

flamelab@flamepc ~ $ firefox
flamelab@flamepc ~ $ firefox -P
flamelab@flamepc ~ $ firefox -jsconsole
flamelab@flamepc ~ $LD_PRELOAD=  firefox
flamelab@flamepc ~ $

It happened suddenly. The only (new) app I had installed, was gnome-do and gnome-globalmenu, just for testing.

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clodhopper · 2009-08-12 16:10:54

flamelab wrote:

Epiphany starts OK. Both Firefox from extra and branded, won't start.
flamelab@flamepc ~ $ firefox
flamelab@flamepc ~ $ firefox -P
flamelab@flamepc ~ $ firefox -jsconsole
flamelab@flamepc ~ $LD_PRELOAD=  firefox
flamelab@flamepc ~ $
It happened suddenly. The only (new) app I had installed, was gnome-do and gnome-globalmenu, just for testing.

Good job this is newbie forum cos i get stuck very quick ! . Going to add to moz bug re 2822 hits on this thread = definitive problem ! . Maybe that will help some of us - eventually. Meantime seems to me an idea for you to post an Arch bug ? .Bugs are often about finding out where the problem is and isolating any with the Arch packaging would be a good start.

BW Chris

flamelab · 2009-08-13 10:16:02

Well, my problem was gnome-globalmenu

I added this to /etc/profile and firefox starts again:

export GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC="firefox"

Gen2ly · 2009-08-13 11:48:56

Ah, thanks for the tips. I had to replace my .mozilla folder, something in it must have got corrupted. Now to put all my passwords in again.

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uastasi · 2009-08-13 12:00:37

flamelab wrote:

Well, my problem was gnome-globalmenu
I added this to /etc/profile and firefox starts again:
export GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC="firefox"

Thank you a lot for the tip. I can finally switch back to FF 3.5. :cool:

intellitech · 2009-08-13 15:29:45

Doh, and I manage that package, LOL. I didn't ever think to check my globalmenu config. Thanks!

fmgil · 2010-08-18 05:15:02

Hey, I'm new in this forum, and I could get a new solution for this case.
At least for me, it was only a permission problem - my home folder was owned by root, not by 'fmgil' user.
So, I just did a simple chown:

chown -hR fmgil /home/fmgil

Which applies the ownership of all folders and subfolders to your own user. After that, you'll be able to launch applications normally.

jasonwryan · 2010-08-18 06:52:32

Welcome to the boards fmgil.

As Arch is a rolling release information in older threads quickly becomes irrelevant, please think carefully before posting in older threads.

The full forum etiquette is on the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette

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