Re: load Order of Firefox/Thunderbird



Hello Dave,

I don't think you have a 'problem' per see because Firefox and Thunderbird are loading at startup.

Check your .bash_profile to see what starts at startup.

HTH.

Graeme.


On 21/08/07, Dave Sampson <samper d gmail com> wrote:
Ravi,

Thanks for the try. No glory because they are not listed either under
current session or startup programs...

any other ideas?

Ravi Shanker wrote:
> Try this,
> Open "Main Menu[System]->Preferences->Sessions"
> And there remove firefox and thunderbird from the startup programs.
>
> Also watch for the Order values.
>
> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 21:27 -0400, Dave Sampson wrote:
>
>> hey Folks,
>>
>> Running FC6 and GNOME.
>>
>> I've tried scratching my head on how to start searching for answers to
>> my problem but I think I lack the proper terms and vocab.
>>
>> This is the problem.
>>
>> 1. I boot my computer (fine)
>> 2. I login with ID and PW
>> 3. Desktop starts to load, but before I see the gnome "loading splash
>> screen" what ever this is called. I get firefox that checks for updates
>> and then opens. I have to then close it manualy. Then Thunderbird starts
>> up and I have to exit that manualy.
>> 4. then the splash come sup with all the little icons that apear as
>> various things load...
>> 5. then I have my desktop.
>> 6. Then I reopen thunderbird (to check e-mail)
>> 7. then I open firefox to surf.
>> 8. continue on with general procrastination.
>>
>> How can I fix the problem of the pre-load issue of firefox and thunderbird.
>>
>> I usualy do RPM's but no RPS'm avail for 2.x of either so I went with
>> tar binaries.
>>
>> I search for boot order and GDM and GNOM and GNOME desktop and display
>> maner etc etc etc... but nothing documenting this behaviour... i tried
>> searching bugs at the mozilla bug pages for both issues and still
>> nothing.....
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers
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Kind Regards,

Graeme.

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