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I had already tried that, because I've been bitten by that many times. I even tried exiting X. However, a reboot finally solved the problem. I hate having to reboot to fix problems because it makes me feel like I'm using Windows ;) I was in a meeting, though, and rebooting wasn't an option. Interesting info on *why* it happens. Thanks. > I'm guessing you have an old instance running. Try exiting firefox and > restarting it. Firefox behaves very badly (but still somewhat > functional) > when you upgrade it while it's running. It's really maddening. It has to > do > with parts of the UI/chrome needing a version-specific path (e.g. > /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/), and they don't function when it's missing (ie > because the old one is gone, and the new one is has a path involving > firefox-3.0.11). The parts of the UI that are hard-coded work though. > > It always makes me pull my hair out until I figure out what's wrong (and > by > then I've usually blown away my .mozilla with all my profiles, etc). > > Matt > > > david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote: >> My work laptop (Ubuntu Intrepid) just upgraded to Firefix 3.0.1.1 this >> morning, and now FF is acting very strangely. >> - It doesn't come up with my home page, even though I set it and reset >> it >> several times >> >> - When I open up a page, only the base of the URL shows up in the >> location >> bar, and not the rest of the URL. >> >> - When I go to a different tab, the location bar still shows the URL (or >> part of it, anyway) from the first thing I opened. >> >> I'm just asking here if anyone else has seen this, because IRC is >> blocked >> at work, so I can't ask people there until tonight. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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