[SM-Discuss] Re: Fixing Firefox's "find in page"

Andrew afrayedknot at thefrayedknot.armory.com
Wed Mar 2 00:30:14 EST 2005


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:47:33PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Mar 01, Andrew [afrayedknot at thefrayedknot.armory.com] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 1) How would we codify the compreg.dat removal in the spell?
> > > > 'rm -f /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/compreg.dat' would do it, but do we do that
> > > > kind of thing to people?  I think this is just a cache, so it should be
> > > > safe, anyway.
> > 
> > I managed to get firefox in devel to build without removing that file,
> > but on startup afterwards it was getting seg faults, I then moved my
> > .mozilla dir aside and it started up had the chrome://layout hang,
> > I replaced my mozilla dir and it stopped seg-faulting but continued
> > to have overlay problems. I set the compreg file aside and the problem
> > persisted. :-( I'll try building again tonight without that file anywhere
> > to be seen. Perhaps its enough to remove it in /root though?
> 
> As I understand it compreg.dat is a cache which includes information on
> things like the extensions you built with.  You want to remove it because
> your previous build had typeaheadfind in it, and the cache retains that
> info.
> 
> Removing this is completely non-destructive to the user experience as far
> as I can tell.  It doesn't contain your settings or anything like that.  In
> my own builds after removing that file firefox still started with all my
> configs, themes, and downloaded extensions intact.

I guess I hadnt actually removed compreg.dat, I tried displacing it
again and suddenly everything worked, including the find feature! yay!


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