(I need to add a new category — maybe “MyComputer”)
This morning, Firefox wouldn’t start up. Ran just fine last night. Everything closed down without a sweat. But this morning, nope. Process starts (shows up in Task Manager), but the browser never actually opens.
It will open in Safe Mode — which disables all extensions. Bleah.
So, did anything change with extensions yesterday? Hmmm.
Check out the Mozilla Firebird directory. Most recent file is install.log. Yesterday.
Hmmmm. Downloaded an updated Tagzilla version (0.056). And I did it last night, which would have been prior to this most recent shutdown.
Aha. Cherchez la extension.
Tried downloading an earlier version of the product, but no joy. So I deleted that extension .. and Firefox starts up with nary a problem.
Okay … so I wonder what gives. I can reinstall it, but …
… hey, where’s the JSLib extension? That’s flagged by Tagzilla as an absolute, positive must, “otherwise, the program won’t appear to start once you install TagZilla.”
Sound familiar?
So did JSLib get uninstalled somehow by the Tagzilla install? That’s worrisome.
Reinstall JSLib. Restart Firefox. All’s well.
Reinstall Tagzilla. And …
… all’s well. Go back in, reconfigure it, all’s looking well, and …
… wait a second. Tagzilla’s a Thunderbird extension (for e-mail), not a Firefox extension. No, wait, it does work in Firefox (for line grabs, and web mail). But …
… ah. Installed the new version last night, but in Thunderbird, not in Firefox. Possible conflict?
Carefully install updated Tagzilla into Thunderbird. Restart Thunderbird. All’s right in that world.
Close Firefox. Open it. All’s well there, too.
So, conclusion: I installed Tagzilla into Firefox (unnecessary for me) instead of Thunderbird. This is a place where the kinda-unified extension management between the systems becomes a bit problematic, since it isn’t the first time I’ve done that (it’s very easy to, in fact). Since I didn’t have JSlib installed in Firefox (I do now), it failed (just as the Tagzilla page warns).
Problem solved. I guess. Be more careful next time. Definite PEBCAK error.