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Firefox chaos
A problem has arisen with Firefox v1.06 in a new install of SUSE v9.3. Initially the program worked properly. Then I started to install extensions, and the "fun" started.
In the usual way, I installed a number of extensions, all of which were then
marked that their installation would be complete after a shutdown and reloading of FF. When I tried to shut FF down, it told me that I this would mean the loss of eight pending downloads. In fact, there were no pending downloads, so it must have been talking about the incomplete installation of the extensions. I shut down anyway, which meand abandoning the alledged "downloads". I reloaded FF and found that the extenstions were still waiting for me to shut the browser down and restart it. So I shut down again, and rebooted SUSE. -- which, oddly enough, caused the extensions to be installed and ready. This is VERY erratic behavior.
I installed another few extensions, and also a theme (I don't like the cartoon
buttons in most themes. I was surprised to be told that I needed to download
the theme rather than install it. I am sure that it was not always this way,
and that the "install" button actually used to install a theme, and put it into the
list of available themes.
Having no idea how to install the jar file into the theme manager, I found
another extension that promised to do this for me, and installed it, then shut
down FF.
NOW the fun REALLY starts: When I tried to start FF, what came up was the
dialog for choosing a profile. I have only one FF profile, and at the moment
don't want more. But pressing the "Load Firefox" button got me a message that this profile is already in use. There was no way to make FF actually start.
After I repeated this exercise several times, the reaction changed. I no longer
get the choose-profile dialog -- now FF begins to start, and I can see for an
exceedingly short time a frame surrounding the window that FF would be in. This frame then vanishes, and nothing more happens.
In this situation, is there a way to remove all the extensions that I
installed? I would like to start over, install only those extensions which I
know from the past, and which I have reason to believe will behave themselves properly. I would also make do with one of the themes suppliled with FF. In other words, I would leave well-enough alone.
The alternative, I think, is simply to uninstall Firefox and install it again
from the Mozilla site. Or is this better done with YaST?
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