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These are notes from Firefox 3 through to 5, on Linux (PCLinuxOS).

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Firefox silently discards all bookmark changes ∞

• not a permissions issue

1. go to your /user/.mozilla/firefox/profile/ and move all the bookmark-related stuff away.

2. go to bookmarks > organize bookmarks > import and backup > restore

   • and pick one of your files from what you moved away.

Seems to work. Really REALLY bothers me that I silently lost all that work.

Extensions claim to be compatible but their .xpi was not updated ∞

go to about:config and make a new extensions.checkCompatibility boolean field. Set it to false.

Firefox3 crashes on YouTube ∞

Visiting any YouTube page crashes FireFox with:

The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 131 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Partial solution:

su
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then change this section:

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite"
EndSection

to:

# Section "Extensions"
#     Option "Composite"
# EndSection

And restart X.

Problem2: Flash plays, but without sound.

This doesn’t work:

su
apt-get install pulseaudio

Because then the flash will not even play. I just get a white box.

I ended up removing pulseaudio, restarting Firefox and it works now, with audio. Uh.

But it’s version 7 for some reason. Strange.

a solution ∞

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
firefox3.real &

This does not work:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/lib/firefox
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
nohup ./firefox>/dev/null&

I made a little thing to remind me:

echo export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
echo firefox3.real\

Then I copy-and-paste this to run Firefox.

However, there still seems to be an inconsistent issue with firefox showing up as a blank spot.

update: using Openbox I just set this statement in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

Flash has no sound ∞

[solved] earlier ∞

This was tested and works with Firefox 2.0.1 and PCLinuxOS 0.93

Run firefox with:

artsdsp mozilla-firefox

Or if you’re using a Firefox binary distribution, try editing run-mozilla.sh and then change this:

MOZ_DEFAULT_NAME="./${cmdname}-bin"

to:

MOZ_DEFAULT_NAME="artsdsp ./${cmdname}-bin"

Forgot master password ∞

Last tested on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0

Visit this link and confirm the password reset. This will destroy all saved information.

chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul