Re: [Sheflug] disappearing text in firefox

[Brett Royles <brett [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/12/05, David Willington <david.willington [at] ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> No text appears in firefox on my machine running FC4. Everything was
> fine until the computer stalled, possibly because of a cron job, and I
> restarted it with the reset switch. It doesn't seem to have caused any
> long term damage, except that no text appears in firefox, either in the
> web pages or in the menus or in text boxes etc within pages. It gets
> stuck trying to display the source code. There is text however in the
> title bar, and as far as I can tell the browser works otherwise - pages
> are rendered with images, typing a query into google and hitting return
> takes me somewhere sensible etc. It hasn't affected any other browsers
> so I'm not completely stuck, but I've had no luck looking for clues on
> google. I've used yum to uninstall and reinstall firefox, but not luck
> so far. The problem's the same for other users, including root. If
> anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful.
>
> Thanks
>
> David Willington

David

Try removing the .mozilla directory in your /home/username directory
but be aware this will lose all saved passwords and bookmarks

Brett
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