Galeon loads multiple instances, Mozilla doesnt work

dhague30 · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Columbus, OH

Hello,
I recently installed Gentoo Linux

and I am attempting to browse the web. Currently I am using Konquerer (from inside KDE) to websurf. When I try to use Galeon, it loads multiple instances (i.e. 7) of itself and when I try to use Mozilla, it does not work at all. Any suggests? Thank you.
Dave

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24852&highlight=galeon+spawning

Workaround:
remove lib/mozilla-$version/components/compreg.dat
remove write permissions from mozilla installation directory
start galeon

don't run galeon as root

dhague30 · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Columbus, OH

After reading all the other problems that everyone else had, I decided I would just go with one; I dont really need 2 web browsers anyway. I emerge unmerge(d) both of them, and then (r)emerge(d) Galeon since I prefer that one anyway. Thanks for your help anyways.

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

?
so you unmerged galeon and mozilla
then you merged galeon which first had to merge mozilla since it is a dependency
so now you have 2 browsers instead of 2 browsers
huh?

seriously though there is nothing wrong with having multiple browsers you just have to know that this issue exists and avoid running mozilla or galeon as root.

If you do run mozilla as root and have trouble remove the compreg.dat file and it should be fine.