Firefox shutdown accidentally

[Low Kian Seong]

I am lazy to re-write what i wrote on my blog ...
so -> http://www.iosn.net/Members/platypus/blog/79/

On 6/22/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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