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On Friday 10 December 2010, tom wrote: > On 10/12/10 17:41, kevin wrote: > > I find if you use a Sudo type Distro > > Ubuntu, Mint etc, you need to run Sudo firefox from the command line as > > the average user cannot update the addon's in Firefox. > > > > the when firefox is run again the addons are added in the profile. > > > > (too many addons here I think) > > In Fedora I su to root run Firefox, update and then all is well. > > > > On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 14:46 +0000, tom wrote: > >> On 10/12/10 12:26, Philip Whateley wrote: > >>> It's loading ok for me (Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64) > >>> > >>> Could it be an add-on that no longer works? I think there was a letter > >>> in a recent LXF that suggested starting Firefox in safe mode (making > >>> sure there is no residual firefox process running) from the command > >>> line (firefox -safe-mode) and then "Disable All Add-Ons." You can then > >>> activate add-ons one at a time to see which one is broken. > >>> > >>> Hope this helps > >>> > >>> Phil > >>> > >>> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:10 +0000, tom wrote: > >>>> Ubuntu latest firefox update wont load - any ideas how to get it > >>>> running again? > >>>> Tom te tom te tom > >> > >> Cheers - enabled each one one at a time and it now works.... > >> > >> Tom te tom te tom > > > > Regards > > > > Kevin Lucas > > Minions Post Master(Sub) > > Ten Years in the Making! > > www.minionsbandb.co.uk > > www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk > > Po House, Minions, > > Liskeard Cornwall > > PL14 5LE > > 01579363386 > > I use synaptic which goes sudo to do any updating. Alas it seems the new > firefox is not stable on my system - its more secure but only because I > cant run it. > Tom te tom te tom I've just moved my main computer from Mepis to Linux Mint 10 and I'm finding firefox (3.6.13) in that decidedly flakey. Including complete lock-ups of the system where the reset button seems to be the only way out. I've ditched a thing called firefox-branding which seems to have improved the situation but I'm not out of the woods yet. George |
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