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Im using Linux Mint Lisa (12) with GNOME 3 for a couple of months now. Im impressed with the huge user support community and nice interface with the ease of using the same knowledge I had from Ubuntu. Recently the Firefox installation got somehow crapped up. It showed weird search results.



Moreover, the pages would repeatedly hang up. They would get updated (downloaded) but wont change until there was some cursor movement. It was real irritating. Thanks to "remoulder" from Linux Mint Forums, I found a nice method for repairing these things.

Close down Firefox > Press Alt + F2 > type "firefox -profilemanager" without the quotes

Youll see a default profile there. That profile is corrupted. Just create a new one using the options and start with the new one. All fixed.

NOTE: Both the files have the same name so my commands are also same. But if you dont replace the first file with the second when downloading then you might need to change the command as per your files name.

This should fix the problem.

Source: [ Launchpad, Linux Mint Forums ]

In my workplace they have Linux Mint 13 setup for the machines. I personally hate it and my employer too, so we will be shifting to some other Distro very soon, but in the mean time I had to make do with it. We have an extra display attached to every laptop. One of the things that bugs me the most is the "Power management" doesnt have any "Do nothing" option. And if you somehow (yes, theres a way) make it appear, it does the exact same thing as "Blank screen", so yeah, "Aw snap!!". It didnt take much of googling to find Mint forum page that solved the problem though [ http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=106532&f=208 ]
Basically the problem is caused by a faulty assumption in design. It always executes and Screen Blank instruction set, when you close the laptop lid. What you have to do is just comment out one line in the event handler script.
1. First open the file, you might need root rights to edit this, so use sudo if you need

/etc/acpi/lid.sh

2. The find the line

. /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank

3. Comment that line out with

#

It should be fixed immediately.