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Date:      01 Feb 2005 14:13:17 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla and Firefox fail to start
Message-ID:  <44pszkm6uq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050201040730.GA15066@orthanc.st.hmc.edu>
References:  <20050201040730.GA15066@orthanc.st.hmc.edu>

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Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu> writes:

> "So", I say to myself, "wouldn't it be nice to have firefox?"
> 
> So, cd to the right place, make install clean...
> 
> and then try to run it...and it thinks for two or three seconds,
> and hands me my prompt back. 
> 
> No core file, no browser, no error message.
> 
> "Hm..." I think to myself. "...maybe mozilla will work."
> 
> So, I repeat the same process.
> 
> And mozilla won't start either; it does the very same thing.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, with the most-recent errata. 
> 
> Any ideas?

Do you have a ~/.mozilla directory?
Did you try moving it out of the way?



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