Mozilla weirdness

Anthony Carmody anthony at carmoda.com
Thu Oct 16 07:18:02 PDT 2003


Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:54:46AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote:
> 
> 
>>I just upgraded my ports tree and I'm running gnome 2.4 with mozilla 1.4. I logged in as my 
>>username (not root) and double clicked my mozilla icon (which was pointing to /usr/X11R6/
>>bin/mozilla). 2 things I got confused is it gave me a dialog box saying which profile to use (by 
>>default, there was default), so I clicked choose defaut profile, it responded "it's already in use". 
>>Then all of a sudden every 2-3 seconds it gave the same dialog box and I couldn't quit, so I had 
>>to reboot.
> 
> 
> This sort of thing can happen occasionally between Mozilla updates.
> One thing to try is moving aside your ~/.mozilla directory and
> starting again with a new one.  Of course, this means that you'll have
> to recreate all of your customised settings and bookmarks and so forth.  
> 
> 
>>This is my 'top' as you can see a lot of mozilla-bin running, any suggestions will be highly 
>>appreciated. Thank you.
> 
> 
> Yes -- all of your mozilla processes are stuck trying to startup and
> running into some sort of problem reading the defaults.  You should
> kill off all of these processes before doing anything with your
> ~/.mozilla as above:
> 
>     % ps -ax | grep moz | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

anyone know why my Mozilla 1.4 has no spell check in mail?
am i missing something here?



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