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From: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>
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Subject: Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying
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> Hi Warren
>
> I also had this problem, I resolved it by;
> portupgrade -Rf firefox
>
> My understanding is that this goes and forcibly builds all of the ports
> that firefox depends on, then firefox itself.
>
> If you run the commands with truss it will give you some debug information
> on what it is getting stuck on.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Craig Butler

 Thanks, i did this and everything works fine now, guess something in the 
packagaes got a bit screwd around somewhere.