Firefox = Blank Window.
 

For sometime now about every other time I start Firefox a empty window comes up and it is necessary to kill it and try again.
This has happened with Firefox 5 through and including 6.02, and in Xfce 4.6.2, 4.8.x, and KDE 4.7.0 and 4.7.1.
Has anyone else encounter this problem?
Thanks.

Might be worth trashing the profile .. ~/.mozilla/firefox/<default_profile>

Nope. Didn't work. All it did was waste my timing having to re-set the configuration I prefer. The problem remains.

Have you tried disabling all add-ins ?

Care to share what distro you're using? If it's one that uses repositories for installation, you might want to try installing from a different repo.

Hi,

Probably Slackware since the post is in the Slackware forum. :)

Members profile showes Slackware so I am pretty sure the distro is Slackware.:hattip:

That information should be right about
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:)

kbp,
There are no add-ons installed.

Do you have a different firefox window open when you open it?

Yes, here. I have also this problem on slackware64-current, multilib. I use i3 as wm.

I didn't notice this was the Slackware forum or that the user's profile had Slackware in it since I was browsing this on my phone earlier.
That shouldn't cause it in the least.
@marrowsuck i3, while not being as good as wmii (:P), shouldn't cause that either.

I'm not having this problem on Slackware64 13.37. Might be nice to narrow this down to either Slack64-current or the multilib. Anyone on Slack64-current vanilla (no multilib support added-on) having this problem?

I have seen this problem and it turned out to be incorrect nameserver entry in /etc/resolv.conf.
Dont know why, but cleaning out that file then restarting the network seemed to do the job. I would have expected FF to throw up some sort of error, but none was present so it threw me for quite a while.