Firefox 3.5 will not start

Any time I try to start up firefox, I get this error message:
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.11 and 1.9.0.11.
EDIT: Further poking has revealed that GRE refers to Gecko, which is part of xulrunner. The current version of xulrunner is 1.9.1.
EDIT 2: Tried reinstalling firefox, and discovered there were conflicts that prevented it from reinstalling, so I forced a reinstall, but now it just hangs.
Last edited by Falcata (2009-07-03 22:46:41)

clodhopper wrote:
broch wrote:
Falcata wrote:Didn't work :-/
As I mentioned before you need to uninstall first firefox, xulrunner and obviously whatever firefox dependencies you have installed,
after that run
pacman -Sy firefox xulrunner
if firefox crashes after loading simply move ~/.mozilla to ~/mozilla
Hi,
Same problem here firefox 3.5 will not start and no terminal output.Tried everything on this thread with no luck.
Firefox will start as root but that is it.After trying everything Seamonkey was installed and is working OK.
I am thinking of raising a bug.
Would be glad of any help thanks,Chris.
I would try to install firefox from sources ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html ). If this works, then evidently this is a bug in Arch packaging, otherwise your problem can be related to the firefox sources.
i hope this will help.
Arch packaging has some issues no doubt. I my case, each time when i upgrade firefox with pacman I am loosing saved passords. This is not a case when I install firefox from sources.

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