firefox problems

bw1 · 2011-01-16 18:13:37

Hi I just installed Arch on a new box and have a few questions.

I was trying to install a few add-ons for firefox when it crashed. When I launch firefox its now very very slow. I tried

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla
sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla

Then relaunching with no effect. Firefox -safe-mode also does nothing. Tried pacman -R firefox then pacman -S firefox -also does nothing.

If I launch from terminal using sudo it runs fine.

Any suggestions?

whatshisname · 2011-01-16 18:26:10

Launch it from the command line as a normal user. You might get a clue from the information displayed in the terminal.

Mr Green · 2011-01-16 18:31:53

Can you post your kernel version

uname -a

and

pacman -Qi pacman

and

pacman -Qi firefox

Thank you

Last edited by Mr Green (2011-01-16 18:32:08)

bw1 · 2011-01-16 18:48:48

I didn't get any errors from the terminal when launched that way as normal user.

I pretty much followed the wiki for setup.

Linux arch 2.6.36_ARCH
firefox 3.6.13-1
pacman 3.4.2-1

Thanks

wonder · 2011-01-16 18:57:51

lol

sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla

do rm -rf ~/.mozilla

if you do with sudo then you are trying to delete /root/.mozilla

bw1 · 2011-01-16 19:12:06

I tried deleting the ~/.mozilla again and now it wont start at all. Not sure if thats better or not Still works fine with sudo.

Is there a was to completely remove firefox and re-install it? Its a new install so its no biggie if I have to format again (thou I'd rather not).

wonder · 2011-01-16 19:14:28

maybe flashplugin or openjdk/jre or any other browser plugin that you had installed because you deleted /usr/lib/mozilla

Mr Green · 2011-01-16 19:15:30

pacman -R firefox

Then

pacman -S firefox

bw1 · 2011-01-16 19:38:30

Ok I created a new user and got into x and it works !
I am getting some errors from the terminal thou:

(firefox:18911): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Could not create per-user Gnome applica tion-registry directory: /home/bw1b/.gnome/application-info

(firefox:18911): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function. User modification s to the MIME database are no longer supported.

(firefox:18911): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot open '/home/bw1b/.gnome/applicat ion-info/user.applications' for writing

Ramses de Norre · 2011-01-16 19:45:56

wonder wrote:

lol
sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
do rm -rf ~/.mozilla
if you do with sudo then you are trying to delete /root/.mozilla

Actually,

sudo echo $HOME

prints my regular user's home dir and

sudo ls ~

prints the contents of my regular user's home.

And my sudoers is pretty vanilla...

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2011-01-16 19:46:54)

whatshisname · 2011-01-16 19:56:57

Not sure what the warnings mean but they're only warnings and not errors. The important thing is that firefox works as the new user.

That would seem to indicate there's something wrong in the other user account.

Is this a brand-spanking new installation of Arch, /home/problem_user and all? Or are you using the home partition from a previous installation of Linux?

If you're using an older /home/problem_user folder/partition, you may want to use the new user account as the default and slowly migrate your important data files into the new user folder. If you've done a lot of customization to programs installed in your old partition, you can refer to those init files -- even copying some over but only one program at a time, though -- until you have your old environment back. That way you're not bringing in old cruft that might be negatively impacting Firefox.

After lots of distro hopping last year, that's what I did when I finally decided to stay with Arch for keeps.

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