firefox 3 rc3 install

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 19:09:29 Mike Adolf wrote:
> nik gare wrote:
> > Mike Adolf wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I am having problems with Firefox as bundled with Ubuntu 8.04.  To fix I
> >> downloaded rc3, but can't figure how to install it.  I had expected a
> >> configure.sh file, but their is none.  After un-taring, the directory
> >> contains all the .so files and firefox binary.  I can run it locally
> >> from the directory.  When I did, it ask me to accept the license. I
> >> would like to have it installed in /usr and all the .so in the right
> >> place.  I would be great if apt-get could also recognize that it is
> >> installed. Maybe I need to build my own .deb file--I hope not! Any
> >> ideas?  BTW, rc3 seems to fix the downloading problems I was having with
> >> Ubuntu version.
> >
> > Firefox 3 rc2 is available from the repos, just add this line to your
> > sources.list
> >
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu hardy main
> >
> > rc2 is I think the same as rc3 for the Linux version.
> >
> > Nik
>
> I added this to sources.list and synaptic found firefox-3.1 and
> firefox-4.0. I installed 4.0, but it did not fix my download problem.
> The problem is when I open a link from thunderbird which contains a
> selection to download some file, firefox hangs on the download with a
> 'connecting' or 'waiting' status. Even if I copy the link from
> thunderbird and paste it in firefox the same thing happens. UNLESS, I
> copy and paste the link to the firefox rc3 running from my local
> directory. In that case the download is immediate. I have no idea what
> is happening, but I will say that ubuntu 8.04 doesn't work as well as
> 7.04 or 7.10.
>

Ok, first of all, Firefox-3 is not even released yet (due next tuesday) and 
you installed firefox-4.0? Before any real attempt of solving your issue, I 
recommend you to downgrade to the official release of ubuntu (which is rc1 
in -updates, or rc2 in -proposed). If you insist in using an alpha release, 
there's no point in asking for help, since it implies you can help yourself, 
so please downgrade. 

Actually, I think you should remove the ppa repository linked above, which is 
where your 4.0 comes from. This is a highly experimental repo, intended for 
bone-marrow-blood-producing-edge testing (like that, huh?), not for 
production use (actually, neither is the -proposed repo, so you should stick 
with the default repo + -updates, unless you know what you're doing).

Next, have you tried starting in safe-mode, a new profile, or temporarilly 
bypassing your .mozilla dir? In the last case, since you also use TB, you 
should only move .mozilla/firefox to a new location, otherwise you might also 
lose access to your current TB configuration so you can pinpoint what is 
going on.

I also recommend you run both the thunderbird and firefox from terminals (one 
for each app), so you can see eventual error messages that might help.

regards
FF