[Gllug] b0rked firefox

[Dan Stevens]

It's funny, this exact same thing happened to me as well. I solved it in the
same way too :P

2008/11/12 Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info>

> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 20:36 +0000, Tethys wrote:
> > --------
> >
> > Adrian McMenamin writes:
> >
> > >Suddently (it appears) all my bookmarks have gone missing, my history
> > >doesn't work and the address bar simply contains the last address typed
> > >in it regardless of which tab I am in.
> > >
> > >Anybody else had this happen to them? Any ideas as to how to fix?
> >
> > Yep. I had pretty much the same when I tried out FF3, decided it wasn't
> > for me yet, and tried to go back to FF1.5. Apparently, the Mozilla
> > people don't believe in non-destructive upgrades :-( This is particularly
> > a problem for those of us with NFS mounted home directories. If one
> machine
> > has FF3, and one has an older version, you're screwed. Yet another case
> of
> > the Mozilla organisation being utterly blind to anything that isn't a
> single
> > user Windows-like system. The only solution I could find was to restore
> my
> > ~/.mozilla from backup.
> >
> > I don't know if that's the same issue you're having. I didn't get the
> > address bar problem. But I suspect the same solution will work.
> >
>
>
> Have just worked out how to fix it.
>
> Create a new firefox profile and copy all the old profile files over to
> the new profile.
>
> My problem was complicated by the fact that the squid server I was using
> decided not to play along with DNS. It took me a while to work out which
> problem was which!
>
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