On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 16:00 -0800, Les wrote: > I'm still in there swinging, but I hab a vad cod and cand dink > strait....;-) > > I tried installing the new firefox, and it went badly. Next I tried to > get it working by updating the Java with the sun linux jre. That mucked > it up worse. Then I wanted to go back to the original. Even worse, > because now neither version recognized any of the media stuff, not > flash, not mplayer, not java NADA! > > OK, I thought, just uninstall the works, then eliminate the new > firefox files, and finally reinstall the whole Java, mplayer, totem, > etc. So, I opened the add/remove software and removed all the stuff > that said Java, and accepted uninstalling all related packages, thinking > that when I reinstalled them via the same mechanism, everything would > come back. > > Now nothing at all works in the old version of firefox (except basic > HTML and it parses badly, which seems to be a problem for javascript > anyway, since it doesn't do well with lines that have been commented out > with "#" this is typically a compiler error where the standard parse > string has left "#" out of the single char string for parsing). > > So of course, being an old hacker, I went through all the steps on the > sun website, correllated them with Stanton's website and tried to edit > my way out of it. I don't think I made it any worse, but I certainly > didn't improve the situation. So, having worked on it from 2PM until > 6AM this morning, and then beginning again at about 10AM until now, I > have been hacking away at it. I have decided to throw in the towel and > ask for advice on how to fix my own personal rats nest. I have > considered backing up my local directory, all except the ".??*" files > and directories, then reformatting and reloading linux from the DVD. > But that seems a lot of work to fix what must be quite a bit simpler. > My only problems (that I can see anyway) are the multimedia things and > firefox. How it, guys, any simple solutions for the mess I am in? Take > pity on an old fool noob? > > Regards, > Les H > I'm guessing you need to get into .mozilla and clean out your firefox folder??? -----gary
