William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:07 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I >started seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a >"back" function on any pages or tabs. <snip>
Can you verify the Firefox Package, to see that it is or is not corrupted?
Yes, I've removed and reinstalled via yum and the Centos repo.
Again, I'm really ignorant, but I have one other thought. Have you tried moving all the user-specific stuff directory to another name and letting FF start up "fresh"? I recently had a problem regarding the destruction of the pluginreg.dat. Still waiting to hear if I should post a bug on it. The problem was having FF check to see if it was the default browser (needs to be disabled). Anyway, since you've re-installed, maybe something corrupted some configuration files.
It's easy to do, so worth a try I guess.
The ones with which I'm familiar are ~/.mozilla/firefox and ~/.mozilla/ although I don't think the latter one is involved. There's probably some system-wide ones, but I've never had to chase those down yet.
BTW, did you try an rpm verify after the re-install? We don't want to "assume" that things were not corrupted by the download/install process.
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I need to add you to my spell-checker. It want's me to believe you're a "Drunkard". :-)
HTH
Hahahahahaha! That's about what I feel like this morning Bill. Too many 'rita's yesterday evening. I thought of removing all the mozilla stuff in home to see if that helped, but have not gotten a roundtuit yet. I did verify the file, and it checks out ok. Now that the inbox is cleaned up, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
Thanks..
Sam