Firefox problem, FreeBSD 5.3

Michael C. Shultz ringworm at inbox.lv
Wed Dec 22 18:51:44 PST 2004


On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:22 pm, Jim Johnson wrote:
> Hey all, I'm having an issue with Firefox.  When I go to run it
> nothing at all happens.  No error messages are displayed and no
> browser window pops open.  This makes is pretty hard to troubleshoot
> anything.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could try?
> My ports are fully up-to-date as of about 20 hours ago and it built
> without a hitch.  If this is the incorrect forum for asking such
> questions, please educate me with the correct e-mail address. 
> Thanks!
>
> -Jim

Did you try running it from an xterm? Try the following:

firefox &

and you should be able to see any messages on the term. By the
way I just updated my ports (with sysutils/portmanager) and built 
firefox today on my 5.3 system and it ran fine...

-Mike


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