firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

[Geert Hendrickx]

I had the same problem.  And even though it says you don't have to run it as
root first any longer, it did help. ;-)  

GH


On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:14AM -0400, epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> 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
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