[nzlug] Mozilla on Ubuntu 6.06 x64

[Cliff Pratt]

Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Wed, September 6, 2006 21:31, Cliff Pratt said:
>> Solved it! It seemed to have a problem with plugins, so I renamed the
>> plugins directory away, created an empty one and bingo, up it came.
> Damn, I should have told you to try starting it in safe mode first. That
> would allow you (in FF at least, probably Moz) to go through and shut off
> the plugins, and then turn them on one-by-one until it stops working
> again.
> 
>> Hmm, that almost counts as a bug, not coming up because of a bad plugin.
>>   Maybe it should just disable a bad plugin.
 >
> I get the impression that's not easy.
> 
Yeah. That's why I said 'almost'. It's hard to handle bad behaviour, 
both in plugins and in teenagers.

Cheers,

Cliff