firefox & thunderbird upgrade problem

[Gary Aitken]

I tried removing the directories, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc.
All to no avail.  It's clearly looking at somethig else.

I also see the same problem Kirk Strauser is seeing with

     # firefox
     *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, 
catching
exception so finalize window can close
     *** loading the extensions datasource
     *** loading the extensions datasource

Although mine starts and runs, except I can't save anything and
keyboard shortcuts and things like <ctrl>click don't behave
properly (open the tab, but don't load the link)

I found a reference on a linux site about firefox-installer being
the culprit (/usr/share/firefox-installer/firefox-bin) and a missing
library, libmozjs.so.  Will check into it when I get a chance.
   http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-July/msg03128.html

>> I upgraged thunderbird and firefox via portupgrade.
>>
>> Things kinda work ok, except I cannot modify preferences, and it
>> doesn't see any of my old mail, which leads me to believe it
>> doesn't like my .thunderbird and .mozilla directory hierarchy.
>>
>> All of the subdirectories and files in the .thunderbird tree are
>> owned and writeable by the user, yet no modifications to the
>> configuration (preferences) will write.  The same goes for
>> firefox.
>>
>> Can someone give me a clue as to what is going on?  It behaves
>> as if some directory is not writeable, but I sure can't find it.

> Upgrading thunderbird and firefox involve instructions that are on the 
> mozilla.org website. Certain directories in the .thunderbird/.mozilla 
> directories need to be removed and regenerated by the new version of 
> thunderbird/firefox.
>