The Troll-Range » firefox http://blog.trollgod.org.uk Ghworg's wibblings and geek projects. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Firefox 3.5 startup problem (solved) http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2009/09/firefox-3-5-startup-problem-solved/ http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2009/09/firefox-3-5-startup-problem-solved/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:06:28 +0000 Ghworg http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/?p=358 Firefox[1] 3.5 has been out for a while now, but I’ve only recently managed to switch due to the program not starting up unless I use a weird command line hack.

By using the strace command I found it was hanging on a futex call, starting in safe-mode and even deleting .mozilla didn’t fix . . . → Read More: Firefox 3.5 startup problem (solved)]]> Firefox[1] 3.5 has been out for a while now, but I’ve only recently managed to switch due to the program not starting up unless I use a weird command line hack.

By using the strace command I found it was hanging on a futex call, starting in safe-mode and even deleting .mozilla didn’t fix it. I found a forum thread on the mozilla forum that shows I’m not the only one to come across this. There was a fix described in a post linked from there, but it only worked by editing the launch command, and I’m not prepared to dig through the OS and replace every instance of the launcher to make it work.

Yesterday though I found the real culprit, it was padsp! A long time ago I had set Firefox to use padsp in order to get flash sound to work correctly with pulseaudio. I had totally forgotten I had done this, because I had made the change in /etc not in my home folder.

So if you find Firefox 3.5 won’t start on linux even though 3.0 works fine then check if you have a FIREFOX_DSP (or ICEWEASEL_DSP if on Debian) set somewhere. For me the fix was this:

In file /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc:

# which /dev/dsp wrapper to use
ICEWEASEL_DSP="padsp"

See the ICEWEASEL_DSP line, delete it or comment it out and Iceweasel starts working. If you are using vanilla Firefox then obviously replace every instance of the word iceweasel with firefox to implement the fix on your system.

Hope this helps someone. Oh and flash now works fine with pulseaudio without the padsp thing too.

[1] I’m actually using Iceweasel but it is Firefox in all but name so I’ll call it that here

]]> http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2009/09/firefox-3-5-startup-problem-solved/feed/ 0 Foxytunes fixage http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2007/02/foxytunes-fixage/ http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2007/02/foxytunes-fixage/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:04:51 +0000 Ghworg http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/?p=63 I just upgraded Foxytunes to the latest version (2.2.5) and it broke again (it was broke when I first installed it). The solution is available if you dig through the forums but I thought I’d post it here for easier reference . It tries to look up the error on the FAQ of the . . . → Read More: Foxytunes fixage]]> I just upgraded Foxytunes to the latest version (2.2.5) and it broke again (it was broke when I first installed it). The solution is available if you dig through the forums but I thought I’d post it here for easier reference :-) . It tries to look up the error on the FAQ of the Foxytunes site, but finds nothing, the thing it looks for is “failed-xpcom-install”. This must be a debian/iceweasel issue as I can’t imagine it’s broken for every linux user.

  1. Find the dir the extension installed itself in, one way is to do
    find .mozilla/ -name "FoxyTunes.dll".
    In that dir, make sure that it’s using the linux version of the dll
    cp FoxyTunes.dll.linux FoxyTunes.dll
  2. Now delete the following files from your profile dir, compreg.dat and xpti.dat.
  3. Restart Iceweasel and Foxytunes should now work.
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SessionSaver .2 Absolutely essential this one, reloads all the tabs I had open when firefox was last open. Even if it crashed!

Adblock and Adblock Filterset.G Updater . . . → Read More: Firefox extensions I use]]> Just installed yet another firefox extension, and I thought I’d share with the world all the extensions I currently use. Maybe you’ll find something useful in there.

SessionSaver .2
Absolutely essential this one, reloads all the tabs I had open when firefox was last open. Even if it crashed!

Adblock and
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Get rid of those pesky adverts, everyone already has this one installed I’m sure. The updater keeps my block list up to date for me :-) .

Tabbrowser preferences
Preference options for tab settings that should be in the main firefox IMO.

Bookmarks Synchronizer
Upload/download bookmarks from a FTP or HTTP server. Useful if running firefox on multiple machines. Now that I have most of my bookmarks in del.icio.us I’m thinking of ditching this one though.

del.icio.us
Not the best interface to del.icio.us, I’d prefer foxylicious if it added bundle support, but it does the job.

Reminderfox
Stops me from forgetting people’s birthdays.

Linkification
Turn text into clickable links.

Tab History
When opening a link in a new tab, make that new tab inherit the history from the source tab.

Download Embedded
No more scanning through page source to find the address to download those embedded videos.

FlashGot
And finally, pass off downloads to a proper download manager rather than trying to use firefoxes dodgy download support (resume never seems to work for me in it).

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