From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 20:58:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42B516A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:58:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outside.taborandtashell.net (sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.18.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2562F43D48 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:58:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net) Received: (qmail 93683 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2004 12:57:51 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.9?) (tkelly@192.168.0.9) by 192.168.0.2 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 19 Nov 2004 12:57:51 -0800 Message-ID: <419E5E4C.2090506@taborandtashell.net> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:57:48 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041112) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Strauser References: <200411191130.04589.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200411191130.04589.kirk@strauser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yep - Firefox again. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:58:01 -0000 Kirk Strauser wrote: > I can't get Firefox to start. I'm on a 5.3 system with all ports rebuilt on > November 8, so there shouldn't be an "obsolete library" issues. I've > completely removed ~/.mozilla. I initially tested with Firefox built from > the port, but have also tried installing the pre-built package. When run > as root (after deleting /root/.mozilla), I get: > > # firefox > *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching > exception so finalize window can close > *** loading the extensions datasource > *** loading the extensions datasource > > and then nothing more. I don't know what else to try. Any thoughts? This happened to me, but only _after_ I ran firefox as root once. My shameless hack to fix this was to: $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox $ rm -R * $ portupgrade -f firefox However now every time I start firefox it says: > Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files > probably because you do not have write privileges to this location. > While you can run Firefox like this, it is recommended that you run it > at least once with privileges that allow it to generate these initial > files to improve start performance. Running from a disk image on MacOS > X is not recommended.*** loading the extensions data source But, firefox works. I am just careful to never run it with root priveledges. -Tabor