On 4/20/05, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:19 -0500, Jay wrote:

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Greetings When I start firefox or mozilla I get an hourglass for 3 seconds then nothing happends. Dropping to a terminal and typing firefox just returns to the command line. I re-installed firrefox and it installs fine until I quit then the same situation happends. After re-installing firefox it will run but the same situation happens where it won't start. I have installed int my home directory or into /usr/local/firfox.

( Cent OS 4.0 with all patches applied. Firefox 1.0.2 )

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cd ~ mv .mozilla .mozilla.bak

Yes, this sounds like the classic corrupt profile problem. You could either follow Craig's advice about moving the .mozilla directory or you could do

firefox --profilemanager

Also, you say that you have installed firefox in your home directory and into /usr/local/firefox. I'm curious why you are installing it and not allowing CentOS to install it via yum? e.g.

yum install firefox

Greg