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Firefox 3.0.10 upgrade download broken

Asked by Capt2836

On my system (Asus EeePC1000/Linux running Easy Peasy from SDHC card) the Firefox 3.0.10 update has definitely not gone well.

System runs fine until I try to run Firefox 3.0.10 - then get an alert whilst trying to load Firefox, home page does not load correctly (but is OK when press "Home" icon). After this, various systems will not work - Update Manager hangs whilst loading, Terminal will not load, Synaptic will not load, "File Manager" will not load various folders (File System etc).

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

try:

sudo apt-get --purge remove firefox; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install firefox

That will reinstall firefox for you

IIf that doesnt fly try:

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

This will give you a fresh profile, if that works you can either
1. Rebuild a clean profile
2. Rename the folder back and troubleshoot from there

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Capt2836 (kim-mockett) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Capt2836 (kim-mockett) said : 		#3

Hello Actionparsnip

Many thanks for the help - the "sudo"" reinstall of firefox seems to have done the trick.

Cheers
Kim