I have seen this exact same behavior under Fedora 9. it seems the bug is with firefox for some reason. It will happens when clicking over a link opens firefox. If firefox is already open, it works OK. I've found no solution yet, other than switching to opera for my browsing needs. I have the tabmixplus extension, I thought it was related. Do you have this extension?
Regards.
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:07 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship.
Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't tested with Evolution yet.) I click a link that opens the browser. BANG! The plugins.dat is "emptied".
Restored from my rsync backup, repeat, BANG! "Empty" again.
Now, if the browser is already open, NP.
s/open/opened via the desktop/
Anyone can confirm?
Known problem?
Got second cup of coffee downed and went to see if the bug was known here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=rel...
Didn't see a match. If someone can confirm, I'll post a bug.
BTW,
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111319 CentOS/3.0.4-1.el5.centos Firefox/3.0.4
is CentOS stock AFAIK.
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