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Re: firefox crashes on www.greatandhra.com



Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> 
>> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>>
>>> $mozilla-firefox
>>> *** loading the extensions datasource
>>> Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files
>>> probably because you do not have write privileges to this location.
>>> While you can run Firefox like this, it is recommended that you run
>>> it at least once with privileges that allow it to generate these
>>> initial files to improve start performance. Running from a disk image
>>> on MacOS X is not recommended.Extension System Warning: Failed to set
>>> up default extensions files probably because you do not have write
>>> privileges to this location.
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like you have an extension that isn't playing nice, trying to
>> write in some place other than your home directory. It wants you to
>> run Firefox once as root to write some default files, although it
>> appears that this procedure is being initiated when you visit this
>> site instead of when you first start FF; very odd behaviour.
>>
>> What extensions do you have installed?
>>
> 
> How do I check what extensions I have installed?
> I went to tools -> extensions in firefox menus. There are no entries in
> the new window. So I assume there are no extensions. Also
> 
> $ls /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/extensions/ -al
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-04-10 04:31 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 2005-04-10 04:31 ../
> 
> Dont know if that is the correct method to check for the extensions.
> 
> raju
> 
> 
try $> dpkg -l mozilla-firefox*



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