Thanks gentlemen. That has solved two problems. It was firefox that wouldn't shutdown when it was supposed to and I had to go to System Monitor to clear that, and now I can work getting WordPress up. Dan H. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Marc Randolph <<a href="mailto:mrand@pobox.com">mrand@pobox.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Lee Sharp <<a href="mailto:leesharp@hal-pc.org">leesharp@hal-pc.org</a>> wrote: > On 11/10/2011 09:18 PM, Dan Healy wrote: >> >> I have been having problems with my gmail using firefox. I now realize >> I have Firefox 3.6.24 which is apparently quite old. I think Firefox is >> up to 8.xx. I want to use WordPress and it doesn't like the old Firefox >> that I have installed. I am using Ubuntu 10.04. How do I bring Firefox >> up to date? > > Two links... > > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion</a> > > <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/firefox-4-ppa-for-ubuntu-10-04-and-10-10-users/" target="_blank">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/firefox-4-ppa-for-ubuntu-10-04-and-10-10-users/</a> > > That should get you current. > > Lee </div>Also Dan, you aren't as behind as you might otherwise think. After version 3, Firefox stopped incrementing the second digit. So version 8 can really be thought of as 4.4. 3.6.24 still gets security updates, and I continue to run it on some of my machines. Marc -- Ubuntu-us-tx mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx</a> </blockquote></div>