firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

[epilogue at allstream.net]

hello all,

problems since portupgrading firefox.  i deleted all .mozilla .phoenix
directories from $HOME.

> uname -a
FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE Thu May 27 13:51:30 EDT 2004 i386

> pkg_info | grep -i fire
firefox-0.9_1       Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla

# firefox     <<-- we no longer need to launch 1st time as root, but...
(firefox-bin:87415): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:  

> firefox
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
-->> same message repeats endlessly and cpu is maxed out <<--
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
^C

would anyone have ideas about what might be causing this?


thanks,
epi