Firefox shutdown accidentally

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 00:08 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Ubuntu-desktop-6.0.6 LiveCD
> 
> While browsing Internet Firefox shutdown automatically.  This happened
> several times after I succeeded setup pppoe connection.  I have no idea
> how this would happen.  Any advice.  TIA
> 
> B.R.
> SL
> 

Stephen,

Until Ubuntu figures this out (and I've been reading many complaints
about it), I recommend downloading the .tar.gz file from Mozilla.org,
uninstalling the Ubuntu-supplied software, then installing from the
tar.gz file. I've never had a crash with either 5.01 or 6.06 using the
Mozilla "direct" software. I suspect the same may hold true for
Thunderbird, which I've also used on both versions of Ubuntu with no
trouble.

On the outside chance you haven't installed from the tar.gz file before,
it's pretty painless.

Call up a terminal, cd into the directory containing the tar.gz file,
then at the prompt run:

sudo tar -xzvf firefox.version-info.tar.gz -C /usr/local 

After you give sudo your password and hit enter, the tar command will
unpack the tar.gz file into /usr/local/firefox.

When the unpacking ends, put a symbolic link to firefox's executable
in /usr/bin thusly:

ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox  /usr/bin/firefox

Hit return, and you're done. 

It should work for you after that...And if you have your extensions,
themes, and plugins in /home/~/.mozilla, the new install should pick
them up.

This may seem like a kludgy work-around from an Ubuntu purist's
perspective, but it gets the software running. I've used this approach
with a couple of other distros I've tried, and it gives me the most
consistently reliable results.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Pete
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