For close to 2 weeks I've been trying to get Mozilla working by apt-get update(ing) and then dist-upgrade(ing), but to no avail. Several updates for both Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have been made to these packages during that time, but I was still getting the segmentation fault when trying to start Mozilla. Mozilla Firefox worked, but was constantly crashing (just suddenly vanishing from the screen). Today, I decided to have another go at some troubleshooting. I discovered that I was able to start Mozilla as root. Guessing from this that some of the user settings I had in place were interfering, I tried renaming some relevant-looking files - e.g., prefs.js - in hopes that it would auto-create some new prefs files it would be happy with and thereafter run. That didn't work, so I simply renamed the whole dir in my user's home dir. After that, the browser started working more normally. I don't recall confronting such a situation previously, but I think I've only upgraded Mozilla once on this machine previously. Can anyone tell me if I should be expecting this sort of problem when I upgrade the browser? Also, I've recently read that Debian no longer considers Mozilla free software. Could my recent problems with it be related to this change in the way the developers/maintainers are viewing it?
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