Firefox upgrade problems

[Duncan Lithgow]

Ian Brooksbank wrote:
> This morning I was offered upgrades including an upgrade to Firefox, but 
> when I tried to apply these I got two faults due to an apparent 
> inability to overwrite two files :
> var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic  and  
> usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libmozgnome.so
> 
> I tried several times to no avail, and even tried to uninstall firefox 
> via package manager, but when I tried this it was offering also to 
> remove the Ubuntu Desktop.  Although I did nothing that should affect it 
> Firefox has stopped operating, and I seem to be stuck.  Can anyone 
> advise me about this, I guess I'm not the only person with this problem??
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ian
Did you read you email before asking this? A thread has just been 
started for this problem - have a look at that.

Duncan