Hi!

I use dropline-gnome 2.6 all the time. I log in to kde 3.2.2 last night to help answer a post on mouse in kde. In kde used mozilla.

Now I am back in dlg. BUT mozilla fails to start. When I click the mozilla launcher, the mouse hand become the circle thing for a while and nothing happens.

Now I am using FireFox.

Haven't rebooted yet.

The same thing has happened to many in many installations. I have no idea why, but sometimes it seems to be that it didn't install correctly. You might want to just remove it and compile from scratch.

If anybody can figure out a better solution, I'd love to hear it.

From my experience, Mozilla from Linux distribution is crap so don't use it. Use Mozilla from Mozilla official site. You can install two versions of Mozilla ( one from Linux distro and one from the official site ). I don't encounter any problem using Mozilla from the official site. But don't remove Mozilla from Linux distro because many applications depend on it.

Well the mozilla actually is from dropline. I think I will reboot first before I try to install another copy of mozilla. Don't really like that solution. I can live with FireFox.

The behavior you describe has happened to me in the past.

I have always used "ps -A" to look at running processes and find run-mozilla.sh and/or mozilla-bin as active processes (apparently hanging around from a previous running of Mozilla that didn't clean itself up quite right).

I kill those processes and mozilla starts fine.

Yes mozilla-1.# that comes with the distro seems to "break" for no reason... As my 1.4 with slack9.1 has done, many times.
I now use mozilla-1.6xft installed in a .program directory on my machines. It works great and has no problems... You should use the xft versions of mozilla and not the vanilla builds as xft is fontserver active and has far superior viewing... It can use all installed TTfonts..

This method didn't work. Even after I reboot, mozilla does not start.

Alright I downloaded
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...-linux.tar.bz2

And untar it at /opt
So, mozilla is "installed" at /opt/mozilla

I rename /usr/bin/mozilla
and /usr/bin/mozilla-config to mozilla.16.old and mozilla-config.16.old respectively.

Then I create symbolic link for:
/usr/bin/mozilla --> /opt/mozilla/mozilla
/usr/bin/mozilla-config --> /opt/mozilla/mozilla-config.

And it works fine. Just as before the problem pop up.

Prior to this solution. I actually removepkg mozilla and installed again using dropline-installer. It did not work.

First Not mozilla with gtk. I only stated mozilla xft.
http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html

Nor did I sym link to mozilla from bin. I also deleted the former ~/.mozilla directory after mv the *.s, *.w, custom user.js, bookmarks, and custom userchrome.css to a safe location.

I added mozilla to my menus in gnome.
Started it and let it rebuild the .mozilla dir. I can still launch mozilla1.4 which is still broke but I keep as it is used by Galeon which will not use 1.6. Why would I keep Galeon and a broke mozilla?? Galeon download speeds exceed direct ftp reaching on average (one second let me check this morning) OK 2.4 mbps sustained speeds.

Run mozilla from a term and see what error messages if any appear... The 1.4 always shows a missing file in the /var/ dir ???
As for fixes.. What solves ones problem may not solve anothers....