[ale] Firefox Update Issue

[Jim Kinney]

are you 100% sure that an old firefox isn't also still running (maybe
headless/half-crashed)? I had a similar situation and the old firefox
had a lock on the original prefs and the merge/update was stuck until
the old pid was found and killed.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:40 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I recently updated my SuSE-10.2 Firefox from -2.0 to -3.5.4. The new
> installation works fine, except when I try to edit 'Preferences' I come up
> with a blank entry panel. When I look at the default configuration file I
> do seem to have inherited the earlier preferences (proxies, etc.) but I
> can't view nor change them from the browser. Any idea how to get the edit
> panel back? I don't care about losing the old preferences.
>
> TIA.
>
>  - Mills
>
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