Firefox Problem - Keyboard not working
 

Whats going on?????
Firefox is NOT frozen - i can still click etc. but i cant type anywhere. Not in forms/in location bar etc. I can switch over to konquerer and it works sweet.

I installed firefox once and it worked well
Then later on that night, it wont work!
Have deleted firefox, then reinstalled it.

Should i install firefox thru the installer in the mozilla . org's tar.gz file or should i try and find an rpm?

Am using mandrake 10.0, and current version of firefox.
Have searched and havnt seen anything along these lines.

1.0 is available through Thac's rpm's, at least.

http://rpm.nyvalls.se/

Just hooked myself up with that place yesterday thanks to opjose.

hmmm. i can only find RPM's for mozilla, not firefox on there. (I hate netscape :P)

Hmm... Iadded them as a source and urpmi'd it. Let me see.....

Here it is:

http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/mozi....thac.i586.rpm

cheers. Will try that tonight.

How do i get rid of an installed version of firefox? (one using the tar.gz) can i just delete the folder? (/home/isaac/.firefox)?

This is a page I use as a "quick reference" for how to handle basic rpm/urpmi commands. As you will read there, you can issue
#rpm -qa | grep firefox
and get a complete listing of installed packages containing the grep phrase 'firefox'. Experiement with other searches, like 'kde' or 'mozilla'.

Likewise, you will read that you can remove packages either with rpm directly, or with urpmi. Be sure to read those parts, and then you can use the packagename you gathered above to help you uninstall.

By the way, if you haven't set up your urpmi sources yet, you should. Then you'd havealmost no need for 'tarballs' as they're called (tar.gz, etc files). With urpmi sources properly set up, you have access to the motherlode of programs, and they're very simple to install. The place you want to go is http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

Search around here for more posts on urpmi for more information.

hmmmm. urpmi cant remove something installed from tarballs can it?

the only reason i got the tarball version is that it was what mozilla offered. And being offered by the makers, there must be some reason y they did it.

so yea. will try the rpm when i get back home in an hr or so.

Ah, yes. I should think and type at the same time.

They offer a tarball because that's easy. Packaging rpms for each distro tends to be left to enthusiasts.

i had the same problem on and off with Firefox 0.91 2 3 7 and 1.0

i now use nightly trunk release of Firefox 06th dec 2004 onwards didnt have the problem.

I currently use 10th march 2005 release :)

all seem stable

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...ux-i686.tar.gz

Extract the tar whereever (mine = /home/carl0ski/firefox.v.date/)
run the firefox.sh all is good :)


i dont have any problems installing extensions but if you do as the version is too new

about:config
make sure/change
extensions.lastAppVersion 1.0




I have had a few problems with thacs rpms so dont recommend their firefox

(/home/isaac/.firefox)?

that is your profile and setting folder for Mozilla Firefox
delete that and you lose all your bookmarks password History etc

the firefox program if installed by rpm use

urpme mozilla-firefox

or

rpmdrake-remove
to unistall it.





If you used the installer from Mozilla.org then where ever you chose to install it is what yioat you delete


in my case i extracted the mozilla-firefox-1.0-linux.tar.gz to /home/carl0ski/firefox1.0

so i delete firefox1.0 folder.



i still keep my profile safe and sound at '/home/carl0ski/.firefox/carl0ski' :)