cant get firefox to fire-up

[Guest]

Hello, I just installed the Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity with the kde 3.5 desktop and I'm having no luck getting the firefox browser i added to it to initiate. Oddly, it will come up when i use konsole and type in "firefox" but if i close konsole, the browser closes
with it. I kind of wanted to know if anyone else is having this same issue on kubuntu trinity and, of course, if there's a fix for it.
I'm not a total linux newbie but am not any kind of expert either. i dont know if this could be related to some peculiarity with my machine or not but I've not experienced this issue with firefox on the other distros i've run on it.
i did search to the best of my ability to see if this topic had been brought up before but couldn't find anything. so my apologies if I've duplicated another user's Q.

[claydoh]

Re: cant get firefox to fire-up

How exactly did you install firefox?

you might want to look at the menu entry for firefox, as it will run from a terminal window, I think it is most likely just an error somewhere in that area.

Not familiar with Trinity or what changes they make to a default Ubuntu system, so I can't say what other things could be causing your problem

Until this is figured out, you can run firefox from the alt-f2 run-command dialog

[Guest]

Re: cant get firefox to fire-up

just used synaptic to do the install. Trinity only came with konquerer?! I thought that was a little unusual when i did the install since most distros usually have Firefox or even Opera, much less frequently, included with the ISO. just an observation....probably irrelevant. thanks for taking a look at my post

[claydoh]

Re: cant get firefox to fire-up

Well Kubuntu itself doesn't include firefox as well - not quite enough room on the cd image for some things, plus it tries to be as KDE -centric as possible as one of the Distro's goals