[27604] in Athena Bugs
Potential Firefox bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Melissa Hunt)
Sun Sep 30 17:17:11 2012
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:16:24 -0400
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Hello,
For the past month or so, I've had an issue using Firefox on Athena.
Whenever I would start Firefox (which loads to blank page), Firefox would
freeze and be unusable. I recently deleted
~/.mozilla/firefox/4qd6d6m7.default, which appeared to have information on
my bookmarks, extensions, cache, etc. After this, Firefox began behaving
normally again. I believe the extensions I had active were "Last tab close
button" (which keeps a tab open when you've closed the last one) and
"Switch to Tab no more" (which opens up a new instance of a page if you
already have open, since Firefox will generally just switch you back to the
same page you had open). I also used Firefox Sync to sync all my bookmarks
and extensions (which is why I'm assuming I had the extensions above
installed), but for all I know this could've been causing the problem
itself.
I might try reinstalling these at some point and seeing if Firefox freezes
up again, but I thought I'd send the information I have to you for now.
Thanks,
Melissa
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Hello,<br><br>For the past month or so, I've had an issue using Firefox=
on Athena.=A0 Whenever I would start Firefox (which loads to blank page), =
Firefox would freeze and be unusable.=A0 I recently deleted ~/.mozilla/fire=
fox/4qd6d6m7.default, which appeared to have information on my bookmarks, e=
xtensions, cache, etc.=A0 After this, Firefox began behaving normally again=
.=A0 I believe the extensions I had active were "Last tab close button=
" (which keeps a tab open when you've closed the last one) and &qu=
ot;Switch to Tab no more" (which opens up a new instance of a page if =
you already have open, since Firefox will generally just switch you back to=
the same page you had open).=A0 I also used Firefox Sync to sync all my bo=
okmarks and extensions (which is why I'm assuming I had the extensions =
above installed), but for all I know this could've been causing the pro=
blem itself.<br>
<br>I might try reinstalling these at some point and seeing if Firefox free=
zes up again, but I thought I'd send the information I have to you for =
now.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Melissa<br>
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