[Gllug] b0rked firefox

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 20:36 +0000, Tethys wrote:
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> 
> 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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