[Gllug] Firefox "no running window found" error

[Hong Chyr]

Found the problem. I installed J2SDK and installed the java plugin (ns610) in the mozilla plugin directory. This broke firefox BUT not mozilla. Even though I did not install the plugin for firefox. 

Further search on google revealed that newer versions of mozilla (and thus firefox) will not work with the ns610 sun java plugin. The solution is ns610-gcc32 version. So by installing the ns610-gcc32 version for mozilla, firefox will also work. BUT the catch is that, to enable java in firefox, I have to install another symlink for firefox. Funny huh?

Hope this will help someone in the mailing list facing (or about to face) the same problems.

Hong
----- Original Message -----
From: Huw Lynes <huw-l at moving-picture.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:43:44 +0000
To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Firefox "no running window found" error

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:05:19 +0800
> "Hong Chyr" <chyryh at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I just manage to break my firefox (0.8). I can't pinpoint exactly what
> > happened, but the only thing I did was I installed J2SDK from the Sun
> > website.
> > 
> > So now, whenever I start firefox the only message I got is "no running
> > window found." If I have mozilla running already, firefox will start another
> > blank window of mozilla.
> > 
> > I have tried re-installing firefox, clearing out my .phoenix profile and
> > even rebooting(!) but still the error is there.
> > 
> 
> Can't tell you why your firefox isn't working anymore but I can explain the
> weird mozilla behaviour. The back-end of all mozilla-based browsers looks the
> same. Mostly they are run from a wrapper-script that will check to see if
> there is a browser already running, if there is it spawns a window off that
> browser. This is a much more efficient thing to do than start a whole new
> browser. However the script can't tell the difference between moz, phoenix,
> firebird and firefox so if any of the above are running the wrapper script
> will spawn a window from them. 
> 
> The above may be utterly incoherent. its been a long day.
> 
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