Firefox 1.0.7 update broke my Firefox

[nubbe]

Follow debaser13:s link, it worked for me
or do what seaeric suggested.
I did...

First time I've had trbl with backports, I think

[petrol]

I tried the things in that post and they worked after i did:
killall firefox-bin

Petrol

[treris]

Originally Posted by petrol All, I was just doing my duty in keeping up to date... I ran the firefox update to 1.0.7 and firefox no longer loads. I got an error : E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite ' /var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic', which is also in package firefox This error comes in the ubuntu software update and in Synaptic. Please Help! Petrol

try uninstalling version 1.0.6 of both the mozilla-firefox and then the firefox packages before installing firefox 1.0.7, that worked for me

[debaser13]

And I ended up following the good ol' "Restart and Everything Will Work Out" method which, it did. Of course, this was after I followed the commands on the link I provied above. Regardless, looks like a few methods are working. But, from now on, it looks like I will keep Konqueror on my app list for times like these.

Carl

[DeathOnJuice]

Argh, the same thing happened to me! I tried marking mozilla-firefox for complete removal, installing it again, reinstalling the stuff it uninstalled (ubuntu-desktop and yelp), and restarting. I could install it, but not open it. So, I downloaded Mozilla and went to UbuntuForums (here) for some help. I tried one of the solutions, and I had to modify it slightly for it to work for me. Here's what I had to do (note that it's slightly different from what the other people did):

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --purge firefox
sudo dpkg --purge firefox-gnome-support
sudo apt-get upgrade
ONLY DO THE FOLLOWING STEP IF ASKED (I didn't have to do it)
sudo apt-get -f install
killall firefox-bin

Note that while you probably won't have to do the second to last step, YOU MUST DO THE LAST STEP! Then, just open Firefox and be happy.

[usererror]

if the package is broken, installing firefox from a tar-ball is fairly easy. if anyone wants instructions, i can post them. (it's one thing i do know how to do. )

[sal]

i followed the instruction here and got it to install.
the only hitch was that it killed my firefrox icon in the programs menu.
i just recreated the link and up and away it was running again.
my only question is i created the link pointing to
'/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox' but should i have pointed it to /usr/bin/firefox instead?
thanks.

[bearbigears]

had the same problem and followed seaeric advise and it worked thanks seaeric.

[nbx909]

It broke firefox here too, so i tried to uninstall and then reinstall it and it didn't work.
So what should i do?
--edit--
NVM i saw what DeathOnJuice said and now it works

[kleeman]

No problems here at all. It might just be me but it looks like there has been a mild speedup as well.