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firefox package

firefox opens then immediatly closes

Asked by Seandes

It started with 8.10 and continued to 9.04.....

Shortly after doing a add on of some sort Firefox stopped functioning.

The screen would open then immediately disappear, I do not remember the add-on that I chose but it is the only time I have modified Firefox. when I type firefox in terminal it returns this.....

desmond@ubuntu:~$ firefox
firefox: main/renderbuffer.c:2153: _mesa_reference_renderbuffer: Assertion `oldRb->Magic == 0xaabbccdd' failed.
Aborted

Following some advise I was able to open it by typing this command

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

But it will not open by clicking on the icon.

any help?

tyia.

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unixchaos (jza873) said : 		#1

well since you already backed up your config files for firefox try purging it and reinstalling it

sudo apt-get purge firefox
sudo apt-get install firefox

c if that works

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Seandes (seankdes) said : 		#2

well dont cha know that did it thank you unixchaos