Kirk Strauser wrote:
I can't get Firefox to start. I'm on a 5.3 system with all ports rebuilt on
November 8, so there shouldn't be an "obsolete library" issues. I've
completely removed ~/.mozilla. I initially tested with Firefox built from
the port, but have also tried installing the pre-built package. When run
as root (after deleting /root/.mozilla), I get:
# firefox
*** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching
exception so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
and then nothing more. I don't know what else to try. Any thoughts?
This happened to me, but only _after_ I ran firefox as root once.
My shameless hack to fix this was to:
$ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox
$ rm -R *
$ portupgrade -f firefox
However now every time I start firefox it says:
> Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files
> probably because you do not have write privileges to this location.
> While you can run Firefox like this, it is recommended that you run it
> at least once with privileges that allow it to generate these initial
> files to improve start performance. Running from a disk image on MacOS
> X is not recommended.*** loading the extensions data source
But, firefox works. I am just careful to never run it with root priveledges.
-Tabor
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