Re: mozilla-firefox

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:08:01AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Jianan wrote:
> 
> >I installed mozilla-firefox 1.0-4 from my 'sarge' CD-ROM #1. The 
> >installtaion went smoothly but after that I cannot run the browser from 
> >the menu. An animated icon was active for a while and then disappeared. 
> >Nothing comes out. I have been running konqueror all this while.
> > 
> >
> 
> Try running it from a console: "mozilla-firefox" I believe; look for 
> error messages.

You can also try looking in ~/.xesssion-errors after running it from
the menu.  This doesn't let you compare the timing of the messages
with other events, but it should be a complete record of any error
messages.  (OTOH, I've noticed that many versions of Netscape/Mozilla
have had a habit of either failing silently or just giving a single,
completely uninformative message declaring that they're about to die,
in which case neither .xsession-errors nor running from a shell will
give you any useful information.  Hopefully, Firefox is better about
that sort of thing...)

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