Mozilla stopped working?

d1sc g0lf3r · February 18th, 2004, 01:58 AM

Not sure what happened...I am running Mandrake 9.0 and I was using Mozilla as my web browser I went in and setup Mozilla Messenger as my email client and shortly afterwards both the browser and email client stopped working? When I click on the icons to start them it acts like it is going to open by placing the startup icon in my taskbar and the it spins for a second then just goes away...what could I have done? I tried uninstalling them and reinstalling them with no luck.I have tried starting them from the desktop icon, the start menu icon, and going to /usr/bin/mozilla and clicking to start it from there all with no luck.

lost-and-found · February 18th, 2004, 02:10 AM

have you tried to log out and re/log in KDE again? Maybe a process is preventing them from starting, have you checked the system monitor? It'su under Applicaions->Monitoring->KDE System Guard

d1sc g0lf3r · February 18th, 2004, 02:16 AM

Yes I have tried logging out and rebooting neither worked. What do I do with the system monitor? I am still new to Linux

lost-and-found · February 18th, 2004, 03:47 PM

the system guard shows youy a list of the processes currently running. If you're not currently running mozilla check if anything with a moz in the name is running, it might be a runaway process that's preventig you from running mozilla. Select the process and kill it.

either that or something's up with your Mozilla profile.

d1sc g0lf3r · February 19th, 2004, 02:01 AM

I looked and I did not see any processes running. I am currently downloading Mandrake 9.2 and I plan to do a clean install so I am not going to worry about it, but thanks for your posts

eagle1 · February 19th, 2004, 02:25 AM

Well , maybe your mozilla config files got corrupted.
If you don't mind losing saved URL's and stuff, you can locate in your home directory to see if a folder (hidden) called .mozilla is there.
Try to delete it (rm -rf .mozilla) and run Mozilla again.
It should recreate that folder.

Jeordiewhite · February 19th, 2004, 03:41 AM

Go into the mozilla folder that eagle1 mentioned and grab the bookmarks file out of the profiles folder, it should be under default unless you created a new user. I believe the file is bookmarks.html, if not look for a similar name and see if it is it by using an editor to view it if needed.
That way you can delete that folder with out worry of losing those.