Firefox and Timidity

[Andre Mangan]

Thank you, Les.  I will try your recommendation as soon as I find out that
Firefox version 2 displays the GUI correctly.  It does it in XP but that is
a different media player.  It seems that the long-term support for Dapper is
not being honoured by Mozilla.

Cheers,
Andre



On 31/08/2007, Les Gray <lgray at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> On Friday 31 August 2007 07:54:55 Andre Mangan wrote:
> > Firefox version 1.5.0.12 used in Ubuntu 6.06 fails to display the
> Timidity
> > GUI whenever a midi file is accessed on the web or from the home
> directory
> > making closure of that file impossible while in the browser.  Galeon web
> > browser does not suffer from this handicap; it displays the Timidity GUI
> > and midi files can therefore be terminated at will.
> >
> > I am curious to know if this problem exists for Firefox version 2.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andre
>
> I don't know if it does, but if you want to find out for yourself you can
> download the latest Firefox from getfirefox.com and install/unpack it into
> your /home directory . The version you already have installed can just be
> left where it is.
>
> Back up your profile in ~/.mozilla as well because you'll need to
> temporarily
> delete that directory to run the new Firefox reliably (something to do
> with
> the difference in versions). Then start Firefox by going into the install
> directory and typing ./firefox
>
> When you're done testing, just delete the Firefox install directory,
> replace
> your backed-up ~/.mozilla directory, and things will be as they were. Of
> course, if you're happy with the latest version you can always keep it.
> You'll have to set up all your addons and plugins manually, though, and
> turn /usr/bin/firefox into a symlink to the new version, rather than
> having
> to start it from a terminal.
>
> This is what I did back in the days of Debian Sarge. The Firefox which
> shipped
> with that distro was prone to crashing, so I just did a /home dir install
> of
> whatever the latest one was.
>
> Les
>
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