mattisking
January 23rd, 2006, 07:10 PM
I don't know if the current Firefox problems are just a small group of us or a much larger one. I've tried total reinstalls, cleaning up anything there previously... creating entirely new profiles, etc... but it still crashes all OVER the place with nothing more than a "bus error" from a terminal. If I try to manage bookmarks, open the prefs dialog, open "File Open", even click and drag text...
The interesting thing is after reading around on google I found an old similar post for an earlier 1.0.x version where someone suggested trying with root permission... not generally something you'd want to do with your profiles and all that... but what the heck...
so I tried "sudo firefox"... it immediately told me that I surely didn't mean that... so it automatically fixed it to "sudo -H firefox" and when it ran... everything worked. However, when I took out the "sudo" I immediately went back to crash-city.
Given that information, is it possible all that needs to happen to get Firefox working right again is a few chmod's? If so, could anyone recommend what exactly to try?
Thanks!
The interesting thing is after reading around on google I found an old similar post for an earlier 1.0.x version where someone suggested trying with root permission... not generally something you'd want to do with your profiles and all that... but what the heck...
so I tried "sudo firefox"... it immediately told me that I surely didn't mean that... so it automatically fixed it to "sudo -H firefox" and when it ran... everything worked. However, when I took out the "sudo" I immediately went back to crash-city.
Given that information, is it possible all that needs to happen to get Firefox working right again is a few chmod's? If so, could anyone recommend what exactly to try?
Thanks!