[Novices] Re: Broken Firefox

[Brock Inglehart]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 20:34 -0700, Steve Vaught wrote:
> There's a slight chance the problem might be in your
> Firefox profile. Run [your firefox directory]/firefox
> -profilemanager.  If you haven't touched your profiles
> at all, there oughta be only one in the list, named
> "Default" or something similar.  If there's more than
> one, that might by your culprit.  Try different
> profiles on Firefox startup and see if any of them
> bring back your bookmarks and toolbars

OK, I understand the concept of what you are talking about, but what and
where is this firefox profile manager?

Brock
> .
> 
> I say it's a slight chance because whenever I manage
> to screw up my profiles, my bookmarks don't just
> break, they disappear completely.  But it's worth a
> shot, I guess.  Hope it works out.
> 
> Steve V
> > 
> > Currently running Suse 9.2  Just did the latest on
> > line update.  In it
> > was a new version of Firefox.  After the download
> > was done, my bookmarks
> > wouldn't work (when you clicked on them nothing
> > happened) and the tool
> > bar with the different categories was gone.  The
> > space was still there
> > but it no longer held the button categories like
> > news, entertainment,
> > maps, etc.  When I did View / tool bars / bookmark
> > tool bar and click
> > it, I can get the space to disappear and reappear as
> > one would expect
> > but either way, there are no buttons that reappear
> > and the bookmarks
> > still don't work.  I can get on line but have to
> > input all the web
> > sights.
> >   
> > 1	Did I get a bad download?
> > 
> > 2	Do I need to turn something on that I just can't
> > find?
> > 
> > 3	Any other suggestions on how to fix.
> > 
> > Brock
> 
> 
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