[Discuss] Firefox with RedHat Fedora

[Lloyd D Budd]

On 1/16/07, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
> After all my boot problems since trying to update Mandriva to Mandriva
> 2007, (Kubuntu failed to provide a boot loader that works), I managed to
> install RedHat on some free space and have been gradually trying to get
> it to work.
>
> So far, at least I have Thunderbird working.  However, I am having a
> problem with Firefox.  Whenever I try to launch it, it says that it is
> already running.  If I do ps -e, there is no firefox or anything like it
> running.  I cannot find any .lock files anywhere.  I removed firefox and
> all related files and tried to reinstall it, but I still get this same
> thing.
>
> I find the "How to install" firefox to be VERY confusing!!

What How to install are you referring to?

> Any ideas of what is going on?

It worked at one time with this installation? Try moving the
~/.mozilla/firefox folder to dotFirefox and see if that works. At
least that might help narrow down the problem.