2. Re: Firefox/Thunderbird Startup Issue (Marcos Guglielmetti)> > First off - my install (knoppix) went smoothly in spanish though i have> > some minor locale issues im sorting out. Thanks for your help Marcos.> Well... the recomended style is begginer, or Debian... Knoppix is almost like > the live-cd style: I never used it... but, it could work for you, I dont > know...Why is that option included? Will this choice inhibit me from upgrading?> > I have installed Firefox and Thunderbird and when I try to open either I> > recieve a error message stating "Firefox/Thunderbird could not be started> > as another instance of mozilla-fireforx/thunderbird is running. Close down> > this applications process and try again."The solution was that the mounted drives were read only. fstab needed to be edited to have ntfs-3g and write enabled.It thought that another process was running it because it couldnt write to it and root owned it.Now all works and my system rocks thanks Marcos you are a champion.