[xubuntu-users] help firefox 2 installation

Tue Jan 23 19:01:20 UTC 2007

If I may suggest, Opera runs surprisingly well on my PII 125MB RAM computer.
And it hasn't crashed yet - concerning Flash, of course. Firefox never had
luck for me, seeing how it would keep crashing on Flash based websites.

On 1/23/07, Mhac Janapin <mhacleth at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi leefangtao,
>
> Don't remove Firefox 1.5 just yet. Use that to go to the Firefox Download
> page and grab the latest tarball (2.0.0.1 I think).
>
> Untar it to the /opt directory. Open a terminal and type:
> $sudo tar xzvf firefox-nnnnn.tar.gz -C /opt
>
> Remove the firefox-1.5 package by
> $sudo apt-get remove firefox
>
> It will warn you that firefox and xubuntu-desktop will be removed. Go
> ahead with 'Y'
>
> Create a symlink in the /usr/bin directory for firefox
> $sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
>
> Voila! Firefox 2 for you. :-)
>
> By the way, this is exactly what I did with my notebook and it surfs well.
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> ------------------------------
> > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:14:02 -0800
> > From: leefangtao at yahoo.com
> > To: xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] help firefox 2 installation
> >
> > i can run firefox by clicking the firefox icon, which
> > is the shell script, in the /usr/lib/firefox. but it
> > is version 1.5, and the Liferea Feed Reader closed
> > when i tried to read news in the open tab.
> >
> >
> > --- "Cody A.W. Somerville"
> > <cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I think you were suppose to use
> > >
> > http://pykeylogger.sourceforge.net/installnewfirefox.sh
> > >
> > > On 1/22/07, fangtao li <leefangtao at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hi,Cody,
> > > >
> > > > thank you for your replying so quickly, the
> > > > instruction and script link are on webpage
> > > > "http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/firefox", which
> > > i
> > > > copy the script down here
> > > >
> > >
> > "http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/removenewfirefox.sh",strange
> > > > script name though. and i did try to run the
> > > firefox
> > > > in terminal, noting happened but with this output
> > > > "/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 5724
> > > > Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}"
> > > >
> > > > thanks again
> > > >
> > > > fangtao
> > > >
> > > > ", --- "Cody A.W. Somerville"
> > > > <cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Fangto Li,
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you please give us a link to this script?
> > > Also
> > > > > does running firefox
> > > > > from the terminal work? Any error output?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Cody A.W. Somerville
> > > > >
> > > > > On 1/22/07, fangtao li <leefangtao at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > hi,it's pinehillman.i've got problem with
> > > firefox
> > > > > 2.0
> > > > > > installation. since i found firefox 1.5 in my
> > > > > xubuntu
> > > > > > 6.06 crashed sometime, i decided to get
> > > firefox
> > > > > 2.0
> > > > > > installed using the instruction from
> > > psychocats's
> > > > > > ubuntu tutorial home page. but i've got
> > > stuffed
> > > > > after
> > > > > > the installation process finished, there is no
> > > > > > response at all when i click the firefox icon
> > > on
> > > > > the
> > > > > > panel or in the menu. i don't know how to fix
> > > it,
> > > > > i
> > > > > > tried to remove firefox 2 and reinstall
> > > firefox
> > > > > 1.5,
> > > > > > it didn't work. i like firefox and really
> > > don't
> > > > > want
> > > > > > to reinstall the whole system for that. could
> > > > > anybody
> > > > > > give me a hand? thanks in advance.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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