Firefox shutdown accidentally

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Peter,

Tks for your advice.

I'm now running Ubuntu Live CD and will install it on HD later after
running the same a while.  Then you advice will solve my problem there.

One further question (I did not run Ubuntu on HD before), can I remove
the old Firefox with "apt-get remove firefox"/"rpm -e firefox" OR I
have to remove it manually?

TIA

B.R.
SL


--- "Peter N. Spotts" <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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