[colug-432] Firefox 6.0 troubles

[Bill Baker]

I believe I've found the problem.  I copied the prefs.js file from the
working profile into the directory for the non-working profile and now
the previously non-working profile works.  There must be some line in
prefs.js that is incompatible with Firefox 6 that Firefox 5.0.1 had no
problem with.

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 19:44 -0400, Bill Baker wrote:
> Just yesterday I downloaded the Firefox 6.0 from the official Ubuntu
> update repository and it's almost completely unusable.  What happens is
> it doesn't look like it renders properly.  It starts out looking like
> this:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~bill_chris/screenshot.png
> 
> Notice how the menu at the top is cut in half and the rest of it is at
> the bottom and upside down.  When you try to use it like this, the text,
> pictures and toolbars jump around the screen making it very difficult to
> use.
> 
> Now the very first troubleshooting step I did was to start in safe mode
> and disable all the add-ons.  Once again, just so nobody tries to
> suggest this to me, THE ADD-ONS ARE ALL DISABLED.  In safe mode, it
> works fine but restarting it in normal mode with the add-ons disabled
> makes it look like the screenshot above.
> 
> I thought it might be a theme issue, but since I'm using the official
> Default 6.0 theme that comes with Firefox, that's unlikely.  But I still
> tried different themes, again with all the add-ons disabled, and it
> still does the same thing.
> 
> One last thing I tried doing was to start Firefox using another profile.
> The profile I used had been copied from my default profile some time
> back, so it had to update all the add-ons, but it worked fine, even with
> the add-ons enabled.  There has to be some difference between the two
> profiles that's causing this to happen.  Does anyone have any
> suggestions as to which file to compare between the two?  I had no
> problems with Firefox 5.0.1.
> 
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