David Smith wrote:
>Well the major difference from what I did and from what you did appears >to be that you used rpms and yum. Where as I downloaded mine from >mozilla.org. It could be possible that there is something broken in the >rpms. I have however found this version to be somewhat more buggy then >0.8. Here is what I did and if you want to try go for it. >This is the only way I got it to work, and trust me it's a bit weird. >1) I downloaded the install program from mozilla.org. >2) Extracted it. >3) sued in as root. >4) Used ./firefox-installer (This is the weird part) >5) I couldn't get it to install to /usr/share/firefox or >/usr/share/firefox-installer so I installed it to the directory that I >had to extracted it to. If it works it automatically opens a firefox >window (p.s. the theme is pretty bad...you may want to change it...after >the next step). >6) I then just moved that dir to /usr/share/firefox (i.e. >~/.../firefox-installer/* /usr/share/firefox). > >I think it my multiple attempts I had changed the directory name a >couple of times, but after I did this is when it showed the best signs >of working. You may want to check all the permissions for security >reasons. Hope that helps shed some light on the differences. > >David >On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:13, Jaime Alvarez wrote: > >>David Smith wrote: >> >>>I had a similar problem this morning after I installed Firefox from the >>>Mozilla website. I found that it would sit there and then not start at >>>all. To fix mine I just renamed my .mozilla directory to >>>.mozilla_backup. This seemed to have fixed it. Seems that this version >>>of firefox is different. For example it had import my bookmarks etc. >>>Hope that helps. >>>David >>>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:00, Jaime Alvarez wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora Core 1. >>>> >>>>Jaime >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Re: firefox problem >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org> >>>>> >>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com> >>>>> >>>>>Subject: Re: firefox problem >>>>> >>>>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Jaime Alvarez wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version >>>>>>yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to >>>>>>install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the original >>>>>>mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works >>>>>>fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update was needed >>>>>>and i agreed to it. >>>>>> >>>>>>Any suggestions? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. ( installation >>>>>of XFree86 ) >>>>> >>>>>FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list to see >>>>>if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be possible ) >>>>>installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86 packages in >>>>>favor of the Xorg packages. >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Mark >>>>> >>>>>Linux user because anything else is just insane. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>I renamed my .mozilla directory, and when i started firefox it prompted >>me for importing dtaa from older versions, but then it didn't work (i >>trid both, importing and not importing) >> >>In my opinion, it is very strange that mozilla 1.4.1 doesn't start either... > > There is a permission problem with the RPM version. By default, the ~/.mozilla directory is 700, but firefox won't work with that setup. If you change the permissions to 775, which was the default of the ~/.phoenix directory, everything works just fine although the initial load does seem to take forever. At least that's what it took for me to get it to work.
Craig
