Wierd Firefox behaviour, one account only



This may be the wrong newsgroup to ask this question in.
If so, my apologies up front.

I have a problem with Firefox 3 on my iMac (10.4.11).

Several months ago I (mistakenly) force quit Firefox 2 when I
browsed to a web page which caused Li'l Snitch to start
putting up advisories about more and more connections
which Fox wanted to make (all different and all to
sites which wanted to install Flash, IIRC). In frustration
I force quit firefox. When I tried to restart it, it seemed
to be hosed because after it came up, it would not respond
to any commands (neither menu nor command-keys).

I had been planning to install FF3, so I didn't see
any problem. I renamed the FF2 Firefox to Firefox.bad
and installed FF3. Well, that exhibited the same symptoms.
Then I clicked on Firebox.bad and it worked! I renamed
Firefox fo Firefox.new and IT worked! It seems that having
a name other than "Firefox" cleared up the problem.
I thought this was passing strange, but since the workaround
worked, I let sleeping dogs lie.

About the same time, I noticed that several web pages
which I frequent failed to display some of their cutesy
stuff (a box with a picture on it and a > symbol in a box to
click on to see more). I let this lie too, since it was mostly
just an annoyance. Then I lgged on to another user account
on the Mac and, surprise, FF worked OK, rendering everything
nicely.

I went through the ritual of zapping the plist in the original
account, but that didn't solve the problem.

Then I finally realized that FF had captured the errors.

The first reported error was:

Warning: Expected declaration but found '*'. Skipped to next declaration.
Source File: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080811/tc_nm/allman_royalties_lawsuit_dc_1
Line: 35

Line 35 was:

<style type="text/css">#ygma #ygmabot{border-top:none;padding-bottom:1.1em;}#ygma


(That was all one one line, BTW)

Given that it works fine from another account, I presume that some local
file in ~/Library is hosed, but I don't want to go off and blow them
all away (even if I could find them) without understanding which
file it is.

So, can anyone shed some light, or should I go to another newsgroup?
And, if so, which group.

Thanks in advance,
Silverlock


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