Mozilla Firefox Intrepid not working.

The version of firefox doesnt hold your preferences, the ~/.mozilla folder you have correctly located hold that, regardless of version.

I recommend you run:

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

If this reinstall doesnt work, you could try:

killall firefox; mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_old; firefox &

This will create a fresh profile which you can test the install is ok, if the new profile works you have 2 choices:
1. Recreate a fresh profile from scratch
2. Rename the old profile back (mv ~/.mozilla_old ~/.mozilla) and troubleshoot from there

If the profile and settings are important then they should be part of your data backup which you can easily restore (assuming you have implemented a backup regime)

Actionparsnip,

     Well I tried the first thing with sudo apt-get and it didn't work. Before I started with the next step I noticed a new distro upgrade and I upgraded today. Firefox runs good now but my old bookmarks etc. are still not on Firefox. It's all there in my .mozilla - Firefox folder. The profile.ini shows:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=xxxxxxxx.default

I added the x's in place of the real items.

Is there an easy step to transfer the data over to the profile?

Pamela

Yes this is because if you ran the mv command you renamed your profile, as it is not called .mozilla, firefox will make you a stock profile. This is a great way to test if the profile you are using is corrupted.

You now have 2 choices

1. Rebuild a new profile

2. run the command

killall firefox; mv ~/.mozilla_old ~/.mozilla

then attempt to troubleshoot the corrupted profile.

The mv command allows us to have a rollback method which i ALWAYS employ.

Thank you, my bookmarks are back now.

Pamela

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:08:09 -0000
  actionparsnip <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Your question #68186 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/68186
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Yes this is because if you ran the mv command you
>renamed your profile,
> as it is not called .mozilla, firefox will make you a
>stock profile.
> This is a great way to test if the profile you are using
>is corrupted.
>
> You now have 2 choices
>
> 1. Rebuild a new profile
>
> 2. run the command
>
> killall firefox; mv ~/.mozilla_old ~/.mozilla
>
> then attempt to troubleshoot the corrupted profile.
>
> The mv command allows us to have a rollback method which
>i ALWAYS
> employ.
>
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.