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Hi all, I have been using Firefox for some time. I have upgraded to 0.9
(having removed previous install). After installing, the browser does
not start (but the process does). Windows XP, installed via setup and
tried with the .zip file too. Any pointers?

TIA

W

William Hamilton wrote:

> Hi all, I have been using Firefox for some time. I have upgraded to 0.9
> (having removed previous install). After installing, the browser does
> not start (but the process does). Windows XP, installed via setup and
> tried with the .zip file too. Any pointers?

you could try removing the mozilla firefox directory from your profile
directory, that should clean it up, and it will re-generate them...
although from memory it will also delete your emails, so maybe just
rename the directory.

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Dave Hall
http://www.dave.net.nz

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:48:31 +1200, steve wrote:

> William Hamilton wrote:
>> Hi all, I have been using Firefox for some time. I have upgraded to 0.9
>> (having removed previous install). After installing, the browser does
>> not start (but the process does). Windows XP, installed via setup and
>> tried with the .zip file too. Any pointers?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> W
>
> I had the same problem on Linux, but it was fixed by removing the
> previous version of Firefox (but Mozilla 1.6 was OK).
>
> It may be that some remnant of the previous version remains?

I remember reading that one does need to remove the old version before
installing the new one.

Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:
> William Hamilton wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I have been using Firefox for some time. I have upgraded to
>> 0.9 (having removed previous install). After installing, the browser
>> does not start (but the process does). Windows XP, installed via
>> setup and tried with the .zip file too. Any pointers?
>
>
> you could try removing the mozilla firefox directory from your profile
> directory, that should clean it up, and it will re-generate them...
> although from memory it will also delete your emails, so maybe just
> rename the directory.
>

Thanks Dave, of all the things I forgot to do!!!. Worked a treat, will
sort out all the bookmarks etc now and I will be a happy man. I need a
good sleep this weekend.. do not know how I forgot to check there.

Thanks for the input

w

> William Hamilton scribbled:

>> Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:

> Hi all, I have been using Firefox for some time. I have upgraded to
> 0.9 (having removed previous install). After installing, the
> browser does not start (but the process does). Windows XP,
> installed via setup and tried with the .zip file too. Any pointers?

>> you could try removing the mozilla firefox directory from your
>> profile directory, that should clean it up, and it will re-generate
>> them... although from memory it will also delete your emails, so
>> maybe just rename the directory.

> Thanks Dave, of all the things I forgot to do!!!. Worked a treat,
> will sort out all the bookmarks etc now and I will be a happy man. I
> need a good sleep this weekend.. do not know how I forgot to check
> there.

FYI

http://www.mozilla.org/products/fire...9.html#install
Old Extensions and Themes
To prevent the kind of problems we had with the 0.8 release (users were
having the browser not start with "No XBL Binding for Browser" errors, and
finding that their theme was broken), when you run 0.9 for the first time
all of your extensions will be automatically disabled, and the theme will be
reset to the default. You must then look for newer versions of your
extensions that are compatible with Firefox 0.9 since the extension API has
changed. After Firefox 0.9 these updates should be more seamless.

Also:
Release Date: 2004-06-14
Critical: Less critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote

Software: Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla 1.2
Mozilla 1.3
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla 1.5
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.x

Description:
A weakness has been reported in Mozilla, allowing malicious people to
conduct phishing attacks.

The weakness is caused due to an error within the handling of URLs. This can
be exploited to potentially trick users into supplying sensitive information
to a malicious web site, because information displayed in the address bar
can be constructed in a certain way, which may lead users to believe that
they're visiting another web site than the displayed web site.

Example:
http://[trusted_site]%2F%20%20%20.[malicious_site]/

Successful exploitation requires that a malicious web site's domain supports
wildcard DNS and accepts invalid values in the "Host:" header.

The weakness has been confirmed in Mozilla 1.6 and 1.7rc3 for Windows and
Firefox 0.8 and 0.9rc for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Don't follow links from untrusted sources, but input URLs manually in the
address bar.
http://secunia.com/advisories/11856/

BTW This security flaw is also found in IE and Opera.....

http://securitytracker.com/id?1010481
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010482

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William Hamilton wrote
> Thanks Dave, of all the things I forgot to do!!!. Worked a treat
> Thanks for the input

sweet as... a pleasure to help.