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upgraded to lucid lynx-amd64, firefox will no longer start, even in safe mode, terminal reports segmentation fault.

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Upgraded to Ubuntu lucid lynx 64bit platform, Firefox will no longer start, even in terminal safe mode - terminal reports Attempting to load the system libmoon Segmentation fault. Thunderbird works fine. Un-installed/re-installed to no success.


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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.9 Safari/533.2

Upgraded to Ubuntu lucid lynx 64bit platform, Firefox will no longer start, even in terminal safe mode - terminal reports Attempting to load the system libmoon Segmentation fault. Thunderbird works fine. Un-installed/re-installed to no success. == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.9 Safari/533.2

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I completely uninstalled everything associated with firefox in synaptic package manager, then reinstalled the latest version of firefox again. Evidently one of the add-ons was preventing firefox from opening, not sure which one though. I hope this will help someone else. Firefox is working now.

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I completely uninstalled everything associated with firefox in synaptic package manager, then reinstalled the latest version of firefox again. Evidently one of the add-ons was preventing firefox from opening, not sure which one though. I hope this will help someone else. Firefox is working now.

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Novell Moonlight was the conflicting addon in my exact same case.