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firefox not working after upgrading to ubuntu 9.10

Asked by viduthalai

i have upgraded ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. now the firefox is not working. whenever i try to start firefox the window appears with the following msg:
<menupopup id="backForwardMenu"
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i tried reinstalling but didnot work.

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pe3k (qyx) said : 		#1

Hi check this bug report, it might help you:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/386810

Or simply try reinstalling firefox AND xulrunner:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox-3.0 xulrunner-1.9

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You could also run:

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_old

Then rerun firefox to see if its profile related rather than the (garbage) app.

If it works with a vanilla profile, you have 2 choices

1) Rename the folder back (rm -rf ~/.mozilla; mv ~/.mozilla_old ~/.mozilla) and troubleshoot the bad profile (hard)
2) Keep the new profile and rebuild (possibly getting bookmarks from the old profile if necessary) (easy)

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viduthalai (viduthalairr) said : 		#3

hi pe3k and actionparsnip,
thanks fr the answers, but unfortunately, they didn work for me. I still have the problem.

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viduthalai (viduthalairr) said : 		#4

hi, my problem solved...
i tried,
code:
firefox -safe-mode
and restored all the default settings by clicking all the checkboxed and clicked restart firefox and now its working good.