On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:33 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote: > > On 12/30/2011 04:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:26 +0000, g wrote: > >> On 12/30/2011 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> <> > >> > >>> No bing search plugin is present. > >> if you follow what Patrick suggested and find that problem is in your > >> profile, you can use new profile and rebuild or... > >> > >> ok. now the 'long part'. > >> > >> with firefox closed, open a file browser, move to your firefox profile > >> directory; > >> > >> /home/aaron/.mozilla/firefox/????????.default/ > >> > >> open a terminal, enter; > >> > >> grep bing * > 00-bing.0001 > >> > >> if file size great than 0, open '00-bing.0001' to see what files have > >> 'bing' in them. > >> > >> make a backup copy of files. open the files and insert '#' or required > >> comment mark at start of line/s that read 'bing'. > >> > >> also, if you find 'bing' and it shows a directory path, rename 'bing' > >> directory. > >> > >> > >> next open directory 'extensions', look for a directory with 'bing' in > >> name. if none, open each sub directory and view files, looking for > >> reference to 'bing'. or, open terminal and; > >> > >> grep bing * > >> > >> no need to redirect to a file, unless you want. if any file does have > >> 'bing', move to top of path, in 'extensions' directory and append an > >> extension to that directory to block it being used. > >> > >> > >> i know this is a lot to go thru, but you can imagine what i have gone > >> thru to find these little 'tricks' to find problems. > >> > >> > > Let us be clear. You want me to cd to .mozilla/firefox/o8u6238s.default > > > > is the name of my default file. > > Then run: grep bing * > bing.out > > > > That returns a file with 4 lines , 28 words and 110008 characters. The > > file is completely unreadable (mostly gobbely gook) > > Well you can find bing appearing in the file but not a line which you > > can easily deal with. > > > > I could grep each file in the directory but that is a lot of work for a > > minor annoyance But maybe I will do it some day. > > > > But in principle I am sure this method would trace down the problem. > if that was "grep -l bing *" then you would get a list of the files that have the word bing in them and you *might* be able to work > with that (like delete unnecessary files or edit them if there are ascii). However, wouldn't it just be easier to stop firefox, > move the directory o8u6238s.default out of the way, and then restart firefox with a new profile? That should take care of the bing > issue once and for all. > > Kevin It is easier but I loose my bookmarks, addons, etc. See solution I posted. -- ======================================================================= Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
