Firefox 67.0 NOT WORKING

[Mike Marchywka]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 08:47:38AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2019 08:28:45 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> >Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> On Wed, 22 May 2019 16:53:44 -0400, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> >I've installed Chromium
> 
> Hi,
> 
> perhaps the future is Qt.
> 
> I can't comment on Firefox, since I don't have Firefox installed on
> Ubuntu. However, my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install works without issues, but
> on my Arch Linux install I suffer from something that is an issue for
> Ubuntu installs > 16.04, too.
> 
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/1808710.
> 
> Unfortunately, apps such as GIMP usually can't be replaced by apps such
> as Krita. Fortunately a web browser such as Firefox could easily be
> replaced by a web browser such as Falkon.
> 
> Since the OP is a Firefox user on 16.04, the OP might prefer QupZilla
> over Chromium.
> 
> >= 18.04
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=bionic&searchon=names&keywords=falkon
> 
> <18.04 Falkon is QupZilla
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=qupzilla
> 
> That was my useful contribution to this topic. You could stop reading
> here.
> 
> An semi-off-topic rant:
> 
> I'm aware that Firefox is build against GTK3. I didn't run it from
> command line, but the kind of issues I experience with Firefox on Arch
> Linux are similar to those I experience with the mentioned GTK2 apps. On
> my Arch install apps such as Claws and GIMP are a pain to use. The same
> versions of Claws, at the moment it's 3.17.3, build with the same flags
> (I build it myself) does run flawlessly on Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> The problem with some bugs is, that not everybody suffers from those
> bugs, using the same application with the same versions of
> dependencies, even not when using the same distro. OTOH some users
> suffer from the same bug, even using different distros. My guess is,
> that it is related to the desktop environment and/or window manager, as
> well as to the used hardware.

I was also going to mention if you can find the browser executable run
ldd on it. I had a messed up upgrade on Ubuntu 11 and I had put some newer packages
into temporary directories. Often I could fix or break things by exporting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and getting the apps to use or not use various combinations
of libraries. This was kind of a mess but may be useful for finding incompabibilities. 


> 
> A few day back I run the Qt app Polyphone from command line, I got the
> messages mentioned by the launchpad bug report, too, but the app
> continues to run flawlessly.
> 
> In short, for some users recent Linux installs are broken, for other
> they aren't. I stopped reporting those bugs, since I experienced way
> too many distro maintainers and upstream developers, that were more than
> just a little bit impolite when we discussed this kind of bugs.
> 
> For most music production applications I already migrated from Linux to
> Apple, to get rid of too much software and hardware issues and too many
> unfriendly people.
> 
> There still is hope for Linux regarding "averaged" desktop usage, such
> as office work, web browsing and fortunately not everybody is unfriendly
> and ignores such issues. Walter for example tries to find out why some
> GTK2 apps fail. If you experience the same consider to report it to
> launchpad. I for the moment decided to stay with 16.04.
> 
> On my machine, on Arch Linux, most GTK2 and some GTK3 apps I need suffer
> from voodoo issues. Qt apps don't suffer from voodoo issues, they could
> suffer from bugs, too, but just from bugs that aren't that mysterious.
> 
> I have a concern regarding Qt apps. GTK apps often rely on GVFS, but
> GVFS could cause issues. In my case GVFS makes an external green drive
> spin down and up again and again. Fortunately I don't need GVFS and it's
> easy to remove GVFS to get rid of this issue. After starting some Qt
> apps, for example K3b, the green drives suffers from spinning down and
> up, too and unfortunately I couldn't solve this issue, I need to
> restart the computer to get rid of it.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 
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