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Old 05-17-2006, 10:32 PM   #1
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Firefox shutting down


I have a bit of a strange problem. I had Firefox 1.0.something and SuSE 10 ,everytime I tried to attach an attachment to an email (gmail) or try to bookmark a site FF immidiatly shut down. I removed all of the extensions but that did not help. I removed FF 1.0 and did a google search and found FF 1.5 rpm for SuSE 10 and installed that but no change.

This never used to happen. I am not sure what directly preceded it. Any ideas? Thanks
 
Old 05-17-2006, 11:29 PM   #2
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run firefox from the command line, and try to make a bookmark so the program crashes again.. does it show any useful information in the console it was started from?
 
Old 05-18-2006, 09:57 AM   #3
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Thanks for the response. I did as you said and got:
Code:
(Gecko:7844): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent_window: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(Gecko:7844): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_is_viewable: assertion `window != NULL' failed

(Gecko:7844): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
/usr/bin/firefox: line 159:  7844 Segmentation fault      $AOSS $MOZ_PROGRAM $@
When I removed FF via YaST, rebooted (old Windows habit...), reinstalled FF via YasT, I noticed that I had all the old bookmarks, homepage, extensions. Seems that it was not a complete uninstall. Is that the case, and if so is there anything that I should have done differently?

Thanks again.
 
Old 05-18-2006, 11:13 AM   #4
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When you uninstalled you didnt remove your profile folder where the bookmarks and extensions are kept. Usually in ~/.mozilla/firefox/

I would uninstall once more, rm that directory and install the latest version you can find
 
Old 05-18-2006, 12:23 PM   #5
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OR just create a ne profile. Mpst crashes with Firefox are caused by problems with extensions/themes or a corruption in the profile itself.

Uninstalling and reinstalling does not normally fix problems with firefox.
Firefox Help: How To Manage Profiles
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On Linux or Mac, start Firefox with the the -profilemanager switch, e.g. ./firefox -profilemanager (this assumes that you're in the firefox directory).
If the above doesn't load firefox and give you the profile manager try using the path to your firefox -profilemanager.
 
Old 05-18-2006, 01:36 PM   #6
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OK, I deleted the .mozilla directory and reinstalled FF 1.5 and everything was fine. I reinstalled all of the extensions and all seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
 
Old 05-18-2006, 02:16 PM   #7
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OK, I spoke too soon. Seems as if the Saferfox theme was causing it to crash. I removed it and it did fine, readded it and it crashes whenever you do anything that requires a dialog box to popup. I added a different theme and it is fine.
 
  


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