Apparently, though unproven, at 18:32 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly:
> Yeah, me too. I teach at a university and classes start tomorrow. I've had > the fox not starting as someone else did, then on upgrade it was sort of > working, then not. The last bug I submitted led to the instruction to > start with a clean profile. Sounds sensible, but that means none of my > bookmarks, ad blocks, noscript, cookies or anything. I tried it anyway > with 3.6.9 and Xmarks only (really need those bookmarks). It died before > I could get near to the original problem. That's when I started this > thread. I've got other more urgent things to do with my time. > > > Like my laptop's Ubuntu which suddenly decided it didn't know anything > about its network adapters, and I could not figure out the config tools > that seem to want me to know the MAC address of all that stuff. No clue, > don't know how to find out, but at least I can back up my home > directories. But I need this thing for class _tomorrow_ and I've got a > lot of stuff to print and get on the web -- these things have cost me > about a week. > > I'm writing this on Opera. I'll try chrome if it's easy to figure out. I > don't expect to see the fox on gentoo again any time soon. I'm sad > because I used to like it. Good luck. Firefox seems to suffer badly with upgrades here too. But revdep-rebuild usually fixes it. If not revdep-rebuild then a good dose of common sense usually helps me find the thing that needs rebuilding. The most recent change needed nss to be rebuilt, then firefox again. It's a similar situation to xorg-server and it's drivers. Portage can't trigger a rebuild of the drivers as their version didn't change. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
