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Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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i thought there would be a mozilla in that directory. try the ./run-mozilla.sh
the earlier command searched your entire system for copies of mozilla-bin, which exist in a mozilla directory, and printed their locations to the screen for you. there was only one. i was worried there was more than one copy of mozilla on your system, and one was messing up the other. deleting the .mozilla directory in your home dir makes mozilla run like it hasn't been run before, the next time your run it.
mozilla has a script that sets the variable MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME or something similar, to the directory where mozilla is. instead of running /usr/bin/mozilla, which would be in your path, i thought it may be better to run the mozilla in the mozilla directory. i guess that version doesn't have one.
anyway after the ./run-mozilla.sh i would try ./mozilla-bin from that directory, and if that doesn't work, i would install again. get a newer version.
looks like ill be downloading and installing a new rpm for mozilla. oh well no biggy.
ill stick with opera for now as im very happy with that browser, and may move over to the firefox/bird line of browsers if i cant get something to open in opera.
p.s. thank you for the education. now i see what was going on. same type of steps i would take in a M$ system, but now i have some skill to do that in linux....
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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you never really have to reinstall software in linux unless you accidently delete it or mess it up yourself. linux software almost never messes itself up. it can mess up its own settings in your home dir, where it will not run. that's what usually happens. usually deleting the config file or directory will set things right. config files are usually hidden by having a period at the front of the name, like .mozilla, which wouldn't show up under a normal ls command. ls -a would show all files. in your home directory, rm -r .mozilla would delete the .mozilla directory. just in case you didn't know those 2 important parts.
I was having the same kind of problem. I would execute Mozilla and get a small window with mozilla-bin in the title bar and nothing else. Here is a possible solution. Go to the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 dir and execute the run-mozilla.sh. I received an error message stating "Mozilla 1.2.1 Failed to load overlay chrome://global/content/
dialogueOverlay.xul". After searching on net found this solution, "Run the mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl" . It is in the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1. Made sure mozilla not hanging around in my processes. Then executed Mozilla it came back up. Hope this helps.
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