Well the major difference from what I did and from what you did appears to be that you used rpms and yum. Where as I downloaded mine from mozilla.org. It could be possible that there is something broken in the rpms. I have however found this version to be somewhat more buggy then 0.8. Here is what I did and if you want to try go for it. This is the only way I got it to work, and trust me it's a bit weird. 1) I downloaded the install program from mozilla.org. 2) Extracted it. 3) sued in as root. 4) Used ./firefox-installer (This is the weird part) 5) I couldn't get it to install to /usr/share/firefox or /usr/share/firefox-installer so I installed it to the directory that I had to extracted it to. If it works it automatically opens a firefox window (p.s. the theme is pretty bad...you may want to change it...after the next step). 6) I then just moved that dir to /usr/share/firefox (i.e. ~/.../firefox-installer/* /usr/share/firefox). I think it my multiple attempts I had changed the directory name a couple of times, but after I did this is when it showed the best signs of working. You may want to check all the permissions for security reasons. Hope that helps shed some light on the differences. David On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:13, Jaime Alvarez wrote: > David Smith wrote: > > >I had a similar problem this morning after I installed Firefox from the > >Mozilla website. I found that it would sit there and then not start at > >all. To fix mine I just renamed my .mozilla directory to > >.mozilla_backup. This seemed to have fixed it. Seems that this version > >of firefox is different. For example it had import my bookmarks etc. > >Hope that helps. > >David > >On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:00, Jaime Alvarez wrote: > > > > > >>I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora Core 1. > >> > >>Jaime > >> > >> > >> > >>>Re: firefox problem > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org> > >>> > >>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com> > >>> > >>>Subject: Re: firefox problem > >>> > >>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400 > >>> > >>> > >>>Jaime Alvarez wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version > >>>>yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to > >>>>install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the original > >>>>mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works > >>>>fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update was needed > >>>>and i agreed to it. > >>>> > >>>>Any suggestions? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. ( installation > >>>of XFree86 ) > >>> > >>>FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list to see > >>>if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be possible ) > >>>installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86 packages in > >>>favor of the Xorg packages. > >>> > >>>-- > >>> Mark > >>> > >>> Linux user because anything else is just insane. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > I renamed my .mozilla directory, and when i started firefox it prompted > me for importing dtaa from older versions, but then it didn't work (i > trid both, importing and not importing) > > In my opinion, it is very strange that mozilla 1.4.1 doesn't start either... >
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