[27686] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Wed Oct 29 18:10:17 2014
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: Christopher A Chapman <cchapman@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:10:08 +0000
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Hi Christopher,
bugs@mit.edu is designed for reporting bugs about Athena — specifically, software that behaves correctly on other Linux distributions, but incorrectly on Athena. It is not well suited for end-user support. Please direct all further issues to athena-help@mit.edu for better assistance.
That having been said, based on this and your other bug reports, it sounds like your account has a large number of old configuration files in it. You can create a new Firefox profile as follows:
1) Quit Firefox completely.
2) In the “Terminal” window, type “mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old”
3) Launch Firefox (it may take a few moments while it creates a new profile).
Jonathan Reed
Athena Release Team
On Oct 29, 2014, at 4:39 PM, <cchapman@mit.edu> <cchapman@mit.edu> wrote:
> System name: LIB-LSCI-18
> Type: x86_64
> Display type: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: unknown
> Desktop session: ubuntu
>
> 1) What were you trying to do?
> Open Firefox
>
> 2) What happened?
> It freezes repeatedly and does not open completely.
>
> 3) What should have happened?
> It should open to the home page.
>
> 4) Does this problem happen only on this workstation, or other workstations?
> It happens on all workstations.
>
> 5) If you were following instructions, please include the URL or a
> description of the documentation:
> (e.g. a "problem set for 18.03" or http://ist.mit.edu)
>
>
