Firefox (Re: Java)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:25:04PM -0500, James McCormick wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:50:21PM -0500, James McCormick wrote:
> >>First, if you're using the .deb package, I'd recommend you install the 
> >>package straight from Mozilla.  It works better.
> >
> >Pardon?  Would you mind being more specific?
> 
> 
> Well, I've found that I have fewer conflicts within Firefox itself when 
> I use the Mozilla Foundation's installer than I do with using the .deb 
> package in the Ubuntu repositories.  Perhaps it's just a matter of a 
> public release over a CVS release.

Unless you downloaded a nightly build from Mozilla, they would be the same
(both Ubuntu and mozilla.org have the 0.10.1 preview release as their
current download).

> I've crashed Firefox so badly that it won't even start anymore, giving 
> me a version error (version < 5, according to the error logs when I 
> start from the command line).  That's why I just installed the regular 
> package and made a symnlink to it in /usr/bin.

If you have a problem like this with an Ubuntu package in the future, please
send email to this mailing list to make others aware of it.  These problems
can only be fixed if they are brought to the attention of the community.

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 - mdz