here.david wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Micah Gersten < > launch...@micahscomputing.com> wrote: > >> 2. Is the Firefox crash reproducible? and What are the steps to generate >> the crash? >> > > > Random, sometimes on 1st opening and others "who knows when, just happens" > not able "to make it happen" > Well, if you get a file in /var/crash for it, you can file a report. >> 3. You have a large number of addons installed, does firefox crash with >> them disabled? >> >> > > Woot Watcher 1.0.6, Download status 1.2, Forecastfox 0.9.10.1, LastPass > 1.51.2, Twitter 1.8.1, Ubuntu Firefox Mod 0.7, and Xmarks 3.1.0...have not > tried to remove them as these are the minimum I perfer, guess I could give > up all but xmarks and lastpass...will give that a try... > It could be that a new profile might work for you. Sometimes profiles get corrupt. You can create a new one to test with without deleting your old one. firefox -ProfileManager
> 4. Check for update is grayed out because Ubuntu provides Firefox updates > >> through Debian packages and not directly from Mozilla. >> > > Would be great "IF" that was lisited someplace as I spent hours trying to > find out how to fix this.... > I just noticed this doesn't seem to be anywhere. I added a note here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion > 5. There are probably 2 profile folders if you have installed Firefox 3.5 at > >> some point. Firefox 3.5 copies your current profile on install so that you >> can modify each version independently. >> >> > > Yes, read someplace to delete them and now only have firefox under the > ".mozilla" which must have happen with trying to get, Sound and DVD working. > I do recall a Firefox 3.5 auto update a while back. Things worked great > with Firefox before trying to fix sound....so many items under install about > Firefox who knows what is - is not needed. How do I now move to 3.5 as > check fo update is "greyed out" and way to many items listed under 3.5 to > know what is or is not needed. Which is why the update takes care of... > > I do hope a fix is easy, as I am limiping between Xppro 64 (when I need to > get things done on firefox) and Ubuntu Amd64 which I can scan, print, > play-burn lables and DVD's, Listen to music, Have mac like doc, E-mail, > Office type apps and POWER (Gpart-Clonezilla) to do everything I need to > (except web browsing as would prefer). In less than 6GB vs the 30-50GB in > Windows. Fast "ghosting-recovering" allows me to "try" to fix the issues > and get back within mins vs the hours it normally took with windows... > > Unless you want to test a release candidate, you might want to wait until Firefox 3.5 is officially released which should be soon. You can install it by: sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 or by using Synaptic or another package manager. >> 6. Also, to maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of >> conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . Bug reports are >> handled by humans, the majority of whom are volunteers, so please bear >> this in mind. >> >> > > Sorry if my venting was preceived as a personal attack, I can now see it was > not a sterling way to address the issue, just "upset"....not that is an > excuse...My appoligies to you for reading that venting... > Thank you for your calm reply. Sometimes people don't realize there are other people on the other side of the bug tracker. > BTW, why not have a "special" Location for fixes reported to "fix" issues, > would both move Ubuntu to more folks, as I am sad I waited this long to give > it a try...The last attemp I could not get ahy printers to work and when I > installed Ubuntu awhile ago they now work "out of the box" which allowed me > to switch over... > We have https://help.ubuntu.com which is community maintained support documentation as well as the answer tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu > "I would assume" normal needs majority of folks need to have working are > E-mail, Broswer, Word, Printer at a minimun to get Ubuntu to main > stream....Maybe I might put together a "getting" started paper, just not > sure were to post it and if others had/have the same issues...also, tried > 10's of things (hunderd of hours these past six months, I found listed and > who knows what, if anything, co-mingled to get things to work..or in Firefox > case, break...I do wonder if some simple "how to back up and recover after > trying and breaking things," might be a "best seller," kind of thing. > > I just read the link you gave, very nice...I will remember to relax before > posting, sometimes my humaness pops thru...<g>... Thank you again... > > > Warm Regards, > > David > David M. Bittlingmeier, M.S., CISSP, CRM > > For most people, these things should all work out of the box. If you know of a specific issue, please feel free to report a bug by using ubuntu-bug: ubuntu-bug PACKAGENAME Also, in the future, please open up a bug report for each issue you experience. Otherwise, we end up with huge quoted E-Mails like this one. -- Firefox crashes - the check for update is grayed out and I see two profiles...a reg and 3.5 under ".mozilla" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389990 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
