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I recently installed Fedora 9 on my desktop, and Firefox ran fine. I installed flash and it still ran fine. Then a few weeks later I upgraded to Fedora 10. ...
  1. 04-03-2009 #1
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    I recently installed Fedora 9 on my desktop, and Firefox ran fine. I installed flash and it still ran fine. Then a few weeks later I upgraded to Fedora 10. Well as far as I can tell everything else works fine. Though when I click on Firefox, I get the bouncing icon, and then it just stops. It will show in the try for as long as the icon is bouncing, but then it disappears. I've checked the System Monitor and no Firefox related process comes up. I've also tried uninstalling Firefox by doing rpm -e firefox-3.0.8. The uninstall went fine, so then I installed Firefox again via yum. The same problem happens. Does anyone know what might be wrong?
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    Try starting Firefox from a terminal window and do not launch it as root user. You should hopefully get an error message.
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    It just says error loading XPCOM
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    I'm not sure how much it will help, but you could try the steps listed on this page, in the section titled "Linux Specific Hints".
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tro...s_registration

    You might try re-installing Firefox too.
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    Ok so I tried the tips that the mozilla article provided, but it didn't find anything wrong. So I thought back to any addons I installed. Thats when it occured to me that it could indeed be my flash player. So I just tried removing the link in the mozilla plugins folder to libflashplayer.so. That worked flawlessly. I went through with completely removing Flash through rpm -e flash-plugin-10.0.22.87. That worked. So I thought that maybe it had something to do with the fact that I installed it when I was still using Fedora 9. So I tried re-installing it using a new rpm. It installed fine, but when I tried to start firefox after installing flash again, I had the same problem that I had in the first place. Any other suggestions since I've isolated it to flash?
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    Are you running fedora in 32-bit or 64-bit mode. If 64-bit, are you running 32-bit or 64-bit firefox?
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