Comments on: dear lazywebs: help me fix the internet

By: taupist

taupist — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:50:39 +0000

Look in

/home/youruser/.mozilla/firefox/whateveris.default

Is there a lock file even when Firefox isn’t running?
If so, then you need to delete the lock file.

Also, go into Firefox Preferences>Advanced>Update and make sure that it is NOT set up to “Automatically download and install the update” for Firefox. In Linux, automatic updates only work for extensions.

By: Flavio

Flavio — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:58:01 +0000

I’m having the same problem! It’s a network problem. I found that the I cannot ping localhost. The loopback is not activated at startup.
By running

sudo ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

I’m able to fix everything… until the next boot.
Can you ping localhost? If that’s your problem and you find a solution please let me know!

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:59:30 +0000

Out of curiosity, what is it that you do to be on Planet Ubuntu?

By: fb

fb — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:35:22 +0000

From your description, it sounds like there’s library conflict/corruption. I’m basing this on th fact that Epiphany crashes when started.

Might I suggest backup your bookmarks (for both firefox and epiphany) and completely remove both firefox, epiphany, their Gecko dependencies and your firefox profile (as per Robin and dominiko’s suggestions) and then reinstall both firefox and epiphany.

Hope that helps.

By: eddie

eddie — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:41:51 +0000

when firefox crashes or doesn’t work:
* start a new profile
* disable extensions

if that fails, a crashdump, the logs in console, some strace info or the clear steps to reproduce the bug assures you the bug will be fixed quickly.

By: Chip Bennett

Chip Bennett — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:07:54 +0000

I have been running Firefox 2.x in Kubuntu Hardy, with no issues whatsoever.

(I won’t use FF 3.0 until it is finalized, and all extensions have been properly updated.)

Try installing the Firefox 2 package, in case it is FF 3 RC that is causing the problem?

By: No One In Particular

No One In Particular — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:25:19 +0000

You need to purge/reinstall firefox-3.0 not firefox. “firefox” is just a meta/transitional package in Hardy, firefox-3.0 is where the meat is.

By: dominiko

dominiko — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:10:13 +0000

Worth trying this, at least for testing purpose, in case something got corrupted:

$ mv ~/.mozilla ~/.renamed-mozilla

… and then start firefox again.

Good luck.

By: kiwiadam2

kiwiadam2 — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:06:25 +0000

what about Konqueror?

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:02:51 +0000

Probably a profile or extension issue, rather than something to do with the actual install.

Try:
firefox -safe-mode

which will disable all extensions on startup. Then go through and turn them all off, and (not running in safe mode) turn them on one-by-one until you figure out what is screwing things up.

If safe-mode doesn’t help, go into ~/.mozilla and rename the firefox folder something else (like firefox.broke) and try starting again with a clean slate (you might want to move bookmarks etc across by hand)