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.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Andre<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 31/08/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Les Gray</b> <<a href="mailto:lgray@bigpond.net.au">lgray@bigpond.net.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 31 August 2007 07:54:55 Andre Mangan wrote:<br>> Firefox version <a href="http://1.5.0.12">1.5.0.12</a> used in Ubuntu 6.06 fails to display the Timidity<br>> GUI whenever a midi file is accessed on the web or from the home directory
<br>> making closure of that file impossible while in the browser. Galeon web<br>> browser does not suffer from this handicap; it displays the Timidity GUI<br>> and midi files can therefore be terminated at will.
<br>><br>> I am curious to know if this problem exists for Firefox version 2.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> Andre<br><br>I don't know if it does, but if you want to find out for yourself you can<br>download the latest Firefox from
<a href="http://getfirefox.com">getfirefox.com</a> and install/unpack it into<br>your /home directory . The version you already have installed can just be<br>left where it is.<br><br>Back up your profile in ~/.mozilla as well because you'll need to temporarily
<br>delete that directory to run the new Firefox reliably (something to do with<br>the difference in versions). Then start Firefox by going into the install<br>directory and typing ./firefox<br><br>When you're done testing, just delete the Firefox install directory, replace
<br>your backed-up ~/.mozilla directory, and things will be as they were. Of<br>course, if you're happy with the latest version you can always keep it.<br>You'll have to set up all your addons and plugins manually, though, and
<br>turn /usr/bin/firefox into a symlink to the new version, rather than having<br>to start it from a terminal.<br><br>This is what I did back in the days of Debian Sarge. The Firefox which shipped<br>with that distro was prone to crashing, so I just did a /home dir install of
<br>whatever the latest one was.<br><br>Les<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-au mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au">
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