Firefox (Re: Java)

[James McCormick]

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

Well, I've hand a few other problems with the packaged program not 
starting properly, though I couldn't get much out of the terminal other 
than a normal seg fault when I started it.  I'd let you in on more 
details, but I've since re-installed my system due to a broken Universe 
package.