Re: mozilla-firefox error

[Jules Dubois <3f88o9g02@sneakemail.com>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:59:56 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:18:05 -0600, Jules Dubois
> <3f88o9g02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > [can't run 'mozilla-firefox' from the shell]
>> I get a segmentation fault.  Try running 'firefox' without the mozilla
>> part.
> 
> I suspect some stale config in your /home,

Your suspicion was correct.

> have you tried to move the ".mozilla" dir or with a freshly created
> user?

I used to use Mozilla until I switched to Firefox and I had both a
~/.mozilla and a ~/.firefox directory. I renamed .mozilla to MOZILLA and
mozilla-firefox doesn't crash at startup when run from the shell.

> And it could be useful to look for installed plugins created for earlier
> versions of mozilla...

I don't think I have any plugins.  I know I didn't do anything extra to
install one, except maybe an old (Sun) Java plugin. 

> Andrea

Thanks for your input, Andrea.