I used the install program as you said and it worked!! I installed it
directly in /usr/lib/firefox (deleting the previous firefox and
firefox-0.9.1). Nothing else was necessary.
Thanks to everybody.
Jaime
PS: Any idea why this is happening?
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...
