linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Problem with Firefox and Kubuntu 9.10 upgrade

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Problem with Firefox and Kubuntu 9.10 upgrade

The icon that you speak of is not to launch FF. It was likely put there when
you installed a replacement for Firefox. It sounds like you may have enabled
a repository that replaced Firefox with something else. There should be
another one. Look for Shiretoko which is the alpha of the upcoming version
of Firefox or Minefield which is the experimental branch or even Swiftweasel
which the Debian debranded version. These are the perils of trying to get
newer versions before they hit the mainstream.

Roy

2009/11/4 Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:08:27AM -0000, luv2fly4fun wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a problem with Firefox after upgrading to Kubuntu 9.10. The
> computer is a multi-user box with 6 people having accounts on it. On one of
> the accounts when you click on the firefox icon, a message appears asking if
> you want to install firefox. Firefox works fine on the other accounts. The
> original version of Kubuntu loaded on this machine was 8.04. I loaded
> firefox then and it has worked fine with each upgrade until now. Any ideas
> on how to fix it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
>
> That user *might* try renaming their firefox directory. That is, in
> their home directory, there should be a hidden directory called
> .mozilla.
>
> (Note the period before the name.)
>
> Sometimes, simply renaming that to .mozilla.orig will fix the issue, as
> a new directory will be created next time they start. That will lose
> their bookmarks, but if it solves the issue, they can probably be
> retrieved from the old .mozilla.orig directory. (Though, not being a
> big firefox user, I'm not sure how, but in opera it's quite easy.)
>
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