I had been running CentOS 4.x for quite some time with no problems. Apparently I stubbed my toe when installing CentOS 5 final.
Symptoms: various web sites are not properly displayed in Firefox 3.0.1 (or predecessors). In particular, cnn.com and any calls to Google display with a screen full of ascii characters rather than images. When I look at "page info" within Firefox, it shows "quirk" mode rendering rather than "standards compliant" mode.
BTW, I'm running the same version (in fact, using the same DVD iso) on my home machine, a Gigabyte system I've cobble up, with no such problem.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks, Dick
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Dick Roth raroth7@comcast.net wrote:
I had been running CentOS 4.x for quite some time with no problems. Apparently I stubbed my toe when installing CentOS 5 final.
Symptoms: various web sites are not properly displayed in Firefox 3.0.1 (or predecessors). In particular, cnn.com and any calls to Google display with a screen full of ascii characters rather than images. When I look at "page info" within Firefox, it shows "quirk" mode rendering rather than "standards compliant" mode.
BTW, I'm running the same version (in fact, using the same DVD iso) on my home machine, a Gigabyte system I've cobble up, with no such problem.
Any ideas out there?
Only a "WAG". I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) and just looked at CNN (International and U.S. versions), with, as you see at home, no problem(s). Possibly a Graphics issue? Did you "Upgrade" from CentOS 4.x to 5 or did you do a "Clean" install? BTW, I had issues with Firefox 2.x, with Gmail.com for example, that went away, after I upgraded to CentOS 5.2 and got Firefox 3.x. I think there were major library changes, from CentOS 4.x to 5.0 and if you Upgraded, something may be awry. Possibly remove Firefox and then install again, in case something is corrupted. GL
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Dick Roth raroth7@comcast.net wrote:
I had been running CentOS 4.x for quite some time with no problems. Apparently I stubbed my toe when installing CentOS 5 final.
Symptoms: various web sites are not properly displayed in Firefox 3.0.1 (or predecessors). In particular, cnn.com and any calls to Google display with a screen full of ascii characters rather than images. When I look at "page info" within Firefox, it shows "quirk" mode rendering rather than "standards compliant" mode.
BTW, I'm running the same version (in fact, using the same DVD iso) on my home machine, a Gigabyte system I've cobble up, with no such problem.
Any ideas out there?
Only a "WAG". I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) and just looked at CNN (International and U.S. versions), with, as you see at home, no problem(s). Possibly a Graphics issue? Did you "Upgrade" from CentOS 4.x to 5 or did you do a "Clean" install? BTW, I had issues with Firefox 2.x, with Gmail.com for example, that went away, after I upgraded to CentOS 5.2 and got Firefox 3.x. I think there were major library changes, from CentOS 4.x to 5.0 and if you Upgraded, something may be awry. Possibly remove Firefox and then install again, in case something is corrupted. GL _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The rest of the partitions were reformatted.
Dick
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote:
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This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The rest of the partitions were reformatted.
Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the control files under .mozilla directories?
Dick
HTH
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:22 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote:
<snip>
This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The rest of the partitions were reformatted.
Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the control files under .mozilla directories?
When you launched Mozilla Firefox the first time, I suspect that it created a new .mozilla directory in /home and wiped out your old one.
Have you tried to "yum remove firefox" and then "yum install firefox" to see if the issues stop or continue?
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:22 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote:
<snip> This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The rest of the partitions were reformatted.
Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the control files under .mozilla directories?
When you launched Mozilla Firefox the first time, I suspect that it created a new .mozilla directory in /home and wiped out your old one.
Have you tried to "yum remove firefox" and then "yum install firefox" to see if the issues stop or continue? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Renaming ~/.mozilla and reinstalling Firefox cured my problems. Apparently the .mozilla file in my Home directory, which was not re-formatted, was at odds with the new install. There was a bit of work to reclaim bookmarks, but all appears to be well now. Thanks to Lanny and Jerry for the help.
Dick
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Dick Roth raroth7@comcast.net wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:22 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote:
<snip> This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The rest of the partitions were reformatted.
Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the control files under .mozilla directories?
When you launched Mozilla Firefox the first time, I suspect that it created a new .mozilla directory in /home and wiped out your old one.
Have you tried to "yum remove firefox" and then "yum install firefox" to see if the issues stop or continue? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Renaming ~/.mozilla and reinstalling Firefox cured my problems. Apparently the .mozilla file in my Home directory, which was not re-formatted, was at odds with the new install. There was a bit of work to reclaim bookmarks, but all appears to be well now. Thanks to Lanny and Jerry for the help.
I'm very glad you cured the problem! :-)
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