Re: [Nautilus-list] Solutions to frequent problems with Mozilla embedded in Nautilus

[Daniel J Peng <danielpeng bigfoot com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:12:29PM -0800, Mike Fleming wrote:
> 	1) Ensure that you don't have a "MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME" environment
> variable set,
> 	   especially if is set incorrectly.  Previously, you needed to set
> this environment
> 	   variable to run Mozilla, but this environment variable is no longer
> need.

WOW!  Thanks!

I spent hours and hours and hours trying to figure out why embedded
Mozilla would work under one user but not under another on my computer;  
I tried making new hard links to all of the broken user's files from the
working user's home directory only to find that it didn't seem to affect
anything.  I tried using su from one user to another to get it to work,
which seemed to work occassionally depending on the circumstances of who
was logged on originally.  Sometimes nautilus-mozilla-content-view would
segfault for no apparent reason.

I tried recompiling Nautilus and Mozilla from source, figuring maybe
there was a binary compatibility problem.  I tried running gdb on 
nautilus and nautilus-mozilla-content-view, only to get backtraces that 
indicated a failed assertion from a bad return value from 
libgtkmozembed...

After your email, I discovered that I had
	export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla
in the broken user's ~/.bashrc.  Because it's an environment variable 
set on logon, it propagates through su and copying files around as long 
as you keep the same shell open.  I never even considered the 
environment as a possible problem.  Grr.

Could Nautilus give a more informative error message than "View failed 
to load"?  That error message is really useless to a user trying to 
figure out what's wrong.

Also, what types of files are supposed to show a popup when you hover 
your mouse over it?  How long do you need to hover your mouse for the 
popup to show up?  I don't get any popups on my system.

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