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Subject: Re: Firefox crashes on startup
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Justin Smith wrote:

 > This problem first appeared after upgrading Gnome to 2.16. Oddly,
 > another computer seemingly configured exactly the same doesn't have this
 > problem.

There is likely a library mismatch somewhere which was not caught
by the ports system.  I recently upgraded to firefox 2.0 and she
crashed on startup, but after invoking "portupgrade -R firefox" to
force an upgrade of dependencies, all was well.  So that may be
the first thing to try.

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James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca>
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