Problems with Iceweasel/Firefox after deleting .parentlock.

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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 14:17
eikhorsholm
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My Firefox (3.0.3) completely freezed, so I couldn't kill the process (or there was no proces to be more presice).

Then I deleted .parentlock and now I can start Firefox up and surf etc., but I CANNOT add bookmarks, use the google search field next to the address bar and some other stuff.
And every tab I have open (except the first one) have the loading (rotating thing) on it all the time.

I've tried to remove it completely and did a fresh install, but no luck...????


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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 14:22
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eikhorsholm
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I also cannot reload pages!

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Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:04
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Ali Ross
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Hmm, it sounds like it may be a problem with your .mozilla profile folder, so I'd try to remove your profile and let Firefox create a new one, but first saving your bookmarks.

To do this, the easiest way is actually via the Terminal, so go to Applications > Terminal

(make sure you close down Firefox first before you start!)

You'll start up in your home directory, so change into the .mozilla folder like this:

cd .mozilla/firefox

(make sure you remember the . infront of mozilla).
If you use iceweasel then change the /firefox to /iceweasel etc.

ls

you should see a few files and a folder with lots of numbers in it. Change into that folder like so:

cd 8fd34f53.default

(or whatever your .default folder is called).

Then, copy the bookmarks into the directory below, to back it up.

cp bookmarks.html ..

Finally, remove the profile folder:

cd ..
rm 8fd34f53.default -Rf

next time you start up firefox, it will create a new .default profile folder

move your bookmarks back into that folder:

mv bookmarks.html 4382748ffe.default

where 4382748ffe.default is the new default folder that has been created (you can see this as before with the ls command).

Hope this works for you.

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