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how do I go back to firefox and away from shiretoko

Asked by Ian Brownlie

After doing what I thought was a routine upgrade recently, my browser has changed from firefox to "shiretoko" . This thing is continually hanging, and is as slow as a snail. How do I change back to firefox pls.
           Ian

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Ian Brownlie (ibrownlie) said : 		#1

Please oh please, help me get rid of this thing. My plugins don't work, half of my favourite sites won't connect, and the thing is so sloooooow. I want to go back to a version of firefox that works, up until I did the update yesterday everything was fine. Ther must be a way to put things back the way thry were.
    Ian.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Hi

Have you tried installing Firefox 3.0.13 from Synaptic Package Manager?

Regards from
Tom :)

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Ian Brownlie (ibrownlie) said : 		#3

  Hi Tom,
               Yes I have and it won't have a bar of it. This thing just won't go away. The system looked like it was reinstalling firefox but on restart, there it was, this shiretoko thing. Where I come from there's an old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." there was nothing wrong with firefox the way it was. Now even imacros is going crazy. Is there another browser that works as well as the old firefox in ubuntu?? Good to hear from you Tom,
             Ian. :(

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Best Randymanme (randall43215) said : 		#4

I had the same problems; Everest40 [at Linux Questions.org] told me:

Which Firefox package(s) are you trying to remove in Synaptic? You should be removing firefox-3.5 and, if you have it installed, firefox-3.1, as well as their corresponding -branding, -gnome-support, -dbg, and -dev packages. Leave the packaged called firefox and firefox-3.0 installed.

Bucks367 said:

I actually had trouble with Firefox 3.5 on a Windows XP system at work. I just completely uninstalled all versions of Firefox and reinstalled it cleanly. It works fine now.

And Farslayer advised:

Try creating a new clean profile for Firefox with no extension in it.. see if the issue goes away.

if so then add you extensions back in one at a time, to see if the problem comes back.

Firefox crashing for no apparent reason has always been related to a bad profile when I've run into those issues.
* * * * *

First I went to synaptic and removed everything firefox except ff3.0 (because I didn't know what a clean profile was) but that was no help – Shiretoko was gone, but Firefox was still performing poorly.

To that, Farslayer elaborated:

did you try a clean profile as suggested ? info on how to do so is in the mozilla Knowledge base...

So I went to: support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles and it showed me what to do to launch a clean Firefox profile and that's what did the trick.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

In ubuntu the firefox profile is somewhere like

/home/username/.mozilla/firefox-3.5

renaming the file "profile.ini" to "profiles.120809" should force firefox into creating a fresh new one for you. On a command-line try

cd /home/user/.mozilla/firefox-3.5
ls
sudo mv profile.ini profiles.120809
ls

note that "ls" is a lower-case "LS" but i think you already know that :)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
Good luck with this!
Regards from
Tom :)

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Ian Brownlie (ibrownlie) said : 		#6

Hi All,
           Thanks for the replies everyone, much appreciated. Renaming the "profile.ini" did the trick. Everything seems to be back to normal, I just hope it stays that way.
            Thanks again guys.
                       Ian :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#7

Nicely done again :))) Congrats :))
Please could you clik on the button at the bottom of Randymanme's answer because that would help us get the right answers into the "Solved Answers" database which could help people with a similar problem in the future.
Thanks, congrats and regards from
Tom :))

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Ian Brownlie (ibrownlie) said : 		#8

Thanks Randymanme, that solved my question.