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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.
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.
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