HowTo Install the Latest Firefox in Ubuntu (Ultimate HowTo)

[Rob2687]

It didn't keep anything. :( Just uninstalled some stuff with apt-get then installed a fresh copy of 1.5
Oh well..

Here's the terminal stuff if it's any use
robert@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ./firefox_install
firefox-bin: no process killed
firefox: no process killed
--17:36:11-- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux- i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
=> `firefox-1.5.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.mozilla.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52, 216.165.129.134, ...
Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8,444,956 (8.1M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[================================================== ========================================>] 8,444,956 195.91K/s ETA 00:00

17:36:50 (215.28 KB/s) - `firefox-1.5.tar.gz' saved [8444956/8444956]

tar: /opt: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt' are the same file
cp: `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt' and `/opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt' are the same file
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
beagle firefox firefox-gnome-support gnome-app-install j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin libgecko2.0-cil mozilla-firefox mozilla-mplayer yelp
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 40.6MB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 107072 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing beagle ...
Removing mozilla-mplayer ...
Removing j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin ...
Removing libgecko2.0-cil ...
Removing yelp ...
Removing gnome-app-install ...
Removing mozilla-firefox ...
Removing firefox-gnome-support ...
Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry...done.
Removing firefox ...
find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-depth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.

Running prelink, please wait...

[arnieboy]

It didn't keep anything. :( Just uninstalled some stuff with apt-get then installed a fresh copy of 1.5
Oh well..
woops.. gimme a minute.. will correct a bug.

[TwiceOver]

Heh... Trashed my FireFox. Had to get 1.07 through the package manager.


firefox-bin: no process killed
firefox: no process killed
--16:44:13-- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
=> `firefox-1.5.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.mozilla.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52, 216.165.129.134, ...
Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8,444,956 (8.1M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 8,444,956 318.59K/s ETA 00:00

16:44:42 (283.49 KB/s) - `firefox-1.5.tar.gz' saved [8444956/8444956]

tar: /opt: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
cp: `/opt/firefox/plugins/': specified destination directory does not exist
Try `cp --help' for more information.
cp: `/opt/firefox/plugins/': specified destination directory does not exist
Try `cp --help' for more information.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox firefox-gnome-support gnome-app-install mozilla-mplayer
ubuntu-desktop yelp
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 37.1MB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 90473 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mozilla-mplayer ...
Removing ubuntu-desktop ...
Removing yelp ...
Removing gnome-app-install ...
dpkg - warning: while removing gnome-app-install, directory `/usr/lib/gnome-app-install' not empty so not removed.
Removing firefox-gnome-support ...
Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry...done.
Removing firefox ...
find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-depth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.

./firefox_install: line 12: exec: firefox: not found
root@Lappy:~/Desktop# firefox
bash: firefox: command not found

[LaSSarD]

maybe a sudo mkdir /opt on the start of the script will help yo ;)

[arnieboy]

bug fixed in the tar command. should work now.
Please redownload and try again.

[arnieboy]

maybe a sudo mkdir /opt on the start of the script will help yo ;)
/opt does exist by default on ubuntu AFAIK.

[arnieboy]

any positive news?

[TwiceOver]

Well it worked I guess. Ton of errors. Not really sure what happened but my version now says 1.5.

Got a popup error "Firefox could not install this item due to an error in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem".

[arnieboy]

Well it worked I guess. Ton of errors. Not really sure what happened but my version now says 1.5.

Got a popup error "Firefox could not install this item due to an error in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem".
tons of errors??

just one error bud and its inconsequential.

yeah that error is a gnome based issue (cannot be avoided) and its not a showstopper. it wont come up again (after the first time).
enjoy the sheer speed of firefox 1.5 and if u are in a good enuf mood, try and thank me ;)

what happened was that firefox 1.0.7 was removed, ur settings backed up, version 1.5 downloaded and installed, plugins copied and some of the old settings copied back.

[TwiceOver]

Don't get me wrong... Thanks a bunch. Read the last how to and it looked like too much hastle.

The errors I got were in the terminal window. Either way it works.

[arnieboy]

Don't get me wrong... Thanks a bunch. Read the last how to and it looked like too much hastle.

The errors I got were in the terminal window. Either way it works.
the old howto does nothing to keep ur plugins.
this script does that too..
thanks for the appreciation :)

[arnieboy]

I know there are a lot of people here playing the waiting game: "is it safe enuf and bug-free yet to use? are u sure it wont screw up my computer?"
lol.. yeah its bug-free now.. there was one bug in in the first release which got resolved within 2 minutes... go ahead and use it now. create your panel, menu and desktop shortcuts for firefox 1.5 and enjoy it :)

the only issue u might face is with java plugins. if u do let me know and I will tell u how to fix it.

[bored2k]

What exactly does the script do? Does it dpkg-divert firefox? What?

[arnieboy]

What exactly does the script do? Does it dpkg-divert firefox? What?
no it doesnt. it makes firefox repo independent.
the sequence of events is as follows:
1) closes all instances of firefox
2) downloads firefox 1.5
3) untars the package
4) copies it to /opt/
5) copies all existing plugins of firefox 1.0.7 to firefox 1.5
6) removes firefox 1.0.7
7) backs up the .mozilla (user settings directory)
7) removes the firefox 1.0.7 shortcut (if any) from /usr/bin
8) installs the firefox 1.5 shortcut in /usr/bin
9) runs firefox 1.5 once to create a fresh settings (.mozilla) directory
10) closes all windows of firefox 1.5
11) copies bookmarks, history, cookies etc from the backup directory to the new .mozilla directory.

any more suggestions?

I did not use the dpkg-divert trick because by any chance if u use firefox 1.0.7 alongside firefox 1.5, there is a very high probability of your settings (.mozilla directory getting screwed up)

[pomalin]

for me it remove also epiphany, libgecko, yelp, and I loose my bookmarks .....

[arnieboy]

for me it remove also epiphany, libgecko, yelp, and I loose my bookmarks .....
yes thats a problem... epiphany depends on firefox 1.0.7.
if u install epiphany u wont have firefox 1.5
ur bookmarks shd have got restored..
well anyway herez how to get them back.
cd $HOME/.mozilla_backup/firefox/*.default
cp -f bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/

[bored2k]

for me it remove also epiphany, libgecko, yelp, and I loose my bookmarks .....
That's because ephiphany-browser depends on Firefox.

arnieboy, maybe your script shouldn't remove apt firefox ? You could always rename the firefox in usr/bin and find a way other than dpkg-divert to make apps load the firefox in /opt (just like if the user set them up in prefered apps)?

[Iandefor]

Hey, It worked fine for me! Worked much better than the howto, I must say. Required minimal tweaking on my part (Sudo is broken at the moment; I just had to remove all instances of 'sudo' and start it up as root, and even then, it wasn't the fault of the script). I have just one suggestion: retain the packages that depend on firefox when 1.07 is uninstalled, if at all possible, or reinstall them after 1.5 is installed. It removed epiphany and yelp from my system along with a bunch of metapackages like gnome-desktop.

[bored2k]

yes thats a problem... epiphany depends on firefox 1.0.7.
if u install epiphany u wont have firefox 1.5
ur bookmarks shd have got restored..
well anyway herez how to get them back.
cd $HOME/.mozilla_backup/firefox/*.default
cp -f bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/
You could safely install epiphany using what my above post says. I know it works because I've done tht quite a few times with my 1.5 install.

[arnieboy]

That's because ephiphany-browser depends on Firefox.

arnieboy, maybe your script shouldn't remove apt firefox ? You could always rename the firefox in usr/bin and find a way other than dpkg-divert to make apps load the firefox in /opt (just like if the user set them up in prefered apps)?
the problem with that is the following:
If i rename the firefox 1.5 shortcut in /usr/bin to something else, and dont remove firefox 1.0.7, it will remain in the gnome menu, and people will invariably run firefox 1.0.7. That will conclusively screw up the .mozilla (settings directory). the main problem is that firefox 1.5 does not use a different user settings directory. it uses the same freaking .mozilla/firefox (as version 1.0.7 and all other versions)
Its a lame bug... and needs to be fixed by the firefox devs.. they should make sure every user settings directory goes under a different version based sub directory.

if that is implemented, we dont need to remove anything (we can have ten versions of firefox coexisting)

[pomalin]

ur bookmarks shd have got restored..
well anyway herez how to get them back.
cd $HOME/.mozilla_backup/firefox/*.default
cp -f bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/

Yes for the bookmarks, thanks.

Arfff for epiphany :)

[jrib]

the problem with that is the following:
If i rename the firefox 1.5 shortcut in /usr/bin to something else, and dont remove firefox 1.0.7, it will remain in the gnome menu, and people will invariably run firefox 1.0.7. That will conclusively screw up the .mozilla (settings directory). the main problem is that firefox 1.5 does not use a different user settings directory. it uses the same freaking .mozilla (as version 1.0.7)

At the very least I think your first post should inlcude a warning informing users which packages are going to get removed because they depend on 1.07. A lot of newbies are just going to run this script straight though pressing 'y' everytime they are asked a question. Then they are going to wonder why they can no longer go to help or add-applications.

[e] never mind, I see you have added that now. It will also cause "add applications" to be removed iirc.

[arnieboy]

You could safely install epiphany using what my above post says. I know it works because I've done tht quite a few times with my 1.5 install.
if u install epiphany again, it will again install firefox 1.0.7.. so we get back to square 1.

[arnieboy]

At the very least I think your first post should inlcude a warning informing users which packages are going to get removed because they depend on 1.07. A lot of newbies are just going to run this script straight though pressing 'y' everytime they are asked a question. Then they are going to wonder why they can no longer go to help or add-applications.
says that in the first post in bold.
"uninstalls epiphany and yelp"

[arnieboy]

never mind, I see you have added that now. It will also cause "add applications" to be removed iirc.
yes added "add applications" to the "will get uninstalled" list. thanks :)

[arnieboy]

naah.. this needs to be done better.. its doing its job but uninstalling a few key things.. any fresh ideas?

[nix4me]

naah.. this needs to be done better.. its doing its job but uninstalling a few key things.. any fresh ideas?

The right way would be for the Ubuntu devs to realease a backport. 1.07 was broken from day one. You would think they would have made 1.5 an instant upgrade. I know its difficult and all for them, but it really is a huge deal.

nix4me

[arnieboy]

The right way would be for the Ubuntu devs to realease a backport. 1.07 was broken from day one. You would think they would have made 1.5 an instant upgrade. I know its difficult and all for them, but it really is a huge deal.

nix4me
I am aware of the backports situation. The fact is that backporting firefox is too big a security headache more than anything else. as far I remember jdong's words, its NOT going to be backported in breezy.

[jrib]

naah.. this needs to be done better.. its doing its job but uninstalling a few key things.. any fresh ideas?

I'm not sure people should be doing this without understanding what they are doing.

But if you really want to write a script for it: I don't understand what's wrong with the method the wiki uses. I understand your concern that running 1.07 accidently will mess up your profile (happened to me with the beta's before I figured out what was going on). You have to ensure that the default browser runs the "firefox" command and not the "mozilla-firefox" (not sure how to do that with a script but probably googlable (heh new word?--probably not)). Or you can dpkg-divert the mozilla-firefox command as well. Any other way that the old version could be run (other than an absolute path to the binary)?

[nix4me]

I am aware of the backports situation. The fact is that backporting firefox is too big a security headache more than anything else. as far I remember jdong's words, its NOT going to be backported in breezy.

Agreed. I read that too. Thats too bad.

Honestly, the wiki instructions work fine. Are people having issues with those instructions?

nix4me

[arnieboy]

I'm not sure people should be doing this without understanding what they are doing.

But if you really want to write a script for it: I don't understand what's wrong with the method the wiki uses. I understand your concern that running 1.07 accidently will mess up your profile (happened to me with the beta's before I figured out what was going on). You have to ensure that the default browser runs the "firefox" command and not the "mozilla-firefox" (not sure how to do that with a script but probably googlable (heh new word?--probably not)). Or you can dpkg-divert the mozilla-firefox command as well. Any other way that the old version could be run (other than an absolute path to the binary)?
sounds like a good idea.. lemme give it a try.

[thechitowncubs]

Agreed. I read that too. Thats too bad.

Honestly, the wiki instructions work fine. Are people having issues with those instructions?

nix4me
those work for me everytime

[arnieboy]

Alright, thanks to jason and some more rethinking on my part, I have edited and updated the script. This time it does not remove firefox 1.0.7 or any other package. Hope this works for u!

[jrib]

Alright, thanks to jason and some more rethinking on my part, I have edited and updated the script. This time it does not remove firefox 1.0.7 or any other package. Hope this works for u!

How did you manage to make sure mozilla-firefox doesn't get run?

[arnieboy]

How did you manage to make sure mozilla-firefox doesn't get run?
the only executable is /usr/bin/firefox which has been dpkg-divert-ed.. so no other issues that I can see.

[majikstreet]

majikstreet@oreo:/usr/bin$ ls | grep firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-12-03 19:38 firefox -> /opt/firefox/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2005-10-12 16:09 firefox.ubuntu -> ../lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2005-10-12 16:09 mozilla-firefox -> ../lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox

[jstritar]

Has anyone figured out what is causing the "Chrome Registration" errors when installing extensions? The error comes up but it seems to install fine. It'd be nice if I could figure this out b/c I'm an extension author and would like to know when it really does fail.

[arnieboy]

majikstreet@oreo:/usr/bin$ ls | grep firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-12-03 19:38 firefox -> /opt/firefox/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2005-10-12 16:09 firefox.ubuntu -> ../lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2005-10-12 16:09 mozilla-firefox -> ../lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox
yes as long as mozilla-firefox is not called, its fine.

[jrib]

yes as long as mozilla-firefox is not called, its fine.

the problem is that, at least for me, my default broweser in "system -> prefs -> preferred apps" was set to run mozilla-firefox. This meant that if I didn't already have 1.5 open and clicked on a link in an email, it would run 1.07 since it ran the mozilla-firefox command.

[arnieboy]

the problem is that, at least for me, my default broweser in "system -> prefs -> preferred apps" was set to run mozilla-firefox. This meant that if I didn't already have 1.5 open and clicked on a link in an email, it would run 1.07 since it ran the mozilla-firefox command.
Added a dpkg-divert to mozilla-firefox
this shd resolve that issue as well..

[jrib]

Added a dpkg-divert to mozilla-firefox
this shd resolve that issue as well..

sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
exec firefox


won't that mean that if "mozilla-firefox" get's run, you will get a command not found?

[arnieboy]

sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
exec firefox


won't that mean that if "mozilla-firefox" get's run, you will get a command not found?
yes thats the whole idea.

[jrib]

yes thats the whole idea.

But if I have mozilla-firefox running as my preferred application I will not be able to click on links in applications like my email client. Wouldn't it be better to add a symlink to the new firefox like you did for the original firefox command?

[arnieboy]

But if I have mozilla-firefox running as my preferred application I will not be able to click on links in applications like my email client. Wouldn't it be better to add a symlink to the new firefox like you did for the original firefox command?
hey thats a great idea! script updated. Thanks Jason. I guess that resolves all the issues.

[erikpiper]

How do you get it to stop saying it couldn't install chrome whatever? It needs an OK every start- annoying.

Neat! I was about to try out 1.5- but then the script came!
Also, for me nothing was backed up- I had backups for my bookmarks though! :)

[arnieboy]

How do you get it to stop saying it couldn't install chrome whatever? It needs an OK every start- annoying.

Neat! I was about to try out 1.5- but then the script came!
Also, for me nothing was backed up- I had backups for my bookmarks though! :)
the chrome registration thing is a gnome thing.
bookmarks, cookies and history :)

[nix4me]

User has to have ownership of the installed dir to get rid of chrome errors.

See the wiki. (Firefox New Version)


nix4me

[erikpiper]

Wait a sec- Nevermind!
I only get the errors when I installed an extention or theme- Never mind! sorry.

[arnieboy]

User has to have ownership of the installed dir to get rid of chrome errors.

See the wiki. (Firefox New Version)


nix4me
I never followed the wiki and got the chrome error only the first time, never after that.. so its not an issue. and erikpiper just confirmed that fact.
and for that matter, its not wise to have user ownership on the directory in which your firefox files are installed. That, my friend is a severe security vulnerability.. (same reason why /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox where firefox 1.0.7 is installed does not have user ownership).
One more reason why people should not blindly trust the wiki.

[nix4me]

I never followed the wiki and got the chrome error only the first time, never after that.. so its not an issue. and erikpiper just confirmed that fact.
and for that matter, its not wise to have user ownership on the directory in which your firefox files are installed. That, my friend is a severe security vulnerability.. (same reason why /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox where firefox 1.0.7 is installed does not have user ownership).
One more reason why people should not blindly trust the wiki.

Too bad that 1000's have probably already trusted it.

Good job on the Howto Arnieboy. Thanks for helping the community.
nix4me

[angrylittleman]

thanks arnieboy, worked like a champ for me!

[AndyAWS]

I believe the reason the wiki suggests User ownership is to allow the user to update firefox through it's built in updater. Although I suppose you could run firefox as root to get the updates, however that is also a security risk.

[nix4me]

I believe the reason the wiki suggests User ownership is to allow the user to update firefox through it's built in updater. Although I suppose you could run firefox as root to get the updates, however that is also a security risk.

You are correct. I went back and read up on the topic more. This too might be why it's too complicated to backport before dapper is out?

Not sure but seems sort of logical I guess.

nix4me

[laran]

If it's the case, you can ~safely try these commands :
sudo rm -r /opt/firefox/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins

After that flash should be fine if it worked before (with breezy stock firefox). If it doesnt, please give us the output of
ls /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
and/or try to reinstall all necessary plugins using synaptic.

Thanks for this tip. Mplayer was busted for me and this fixed it. Nice work :)

[Sajjen]

I just used this script on a fresh installation of Kubuntu without installing the Firefox package first. Everything seemed to work fine at first, but Adblock only works if I run Firefox as root (sudo firefox). Any ideas?

[arnieboy]

I just used this script on a fresh installation of Kubuntu without installing the Firefox package first. Everything seemed to work fine at first, but Adblock only works if I run Firefox as root (sudo firefox). Any ideas?
did u install the extension as sudo?

[Sajjen]

I downloaded the extension as a regular user, then started it with sudo. Thought that would fix the chrome registration thingie. I tried to uninstall Adblock and add it again, this time as a regular user but it just gets stuck in 'will be installed when Firefox is restarted'-mode.

[arnieboy]

I downloaded the extension as a regular user, then started it with sudo. Thought that would fix the chrome registration thingie. I tried to uninstall Adblock and add it again, this time as a regular user but it just gets stuck in 'will be installed when Firefox is restarted'-mode.
well then u do realize what u did wrong...
u shd have simply installed adblock as a regular user. the chrome registration thing should not be much of a bother unless u install extensions. the reason why its not working is because one of the extension files in your .mozilla directory is now owned by root (since u tried to install the extension as sudo).
try doing a sudo chown -R user_name:user_name $HOME/.mozilla
where u need to replace user_name by your ubuntu user name and see if that helps.

[strawman]

I ran the script and it installed firefox 1.5 but it did not save my bookmarks; it is fast though.:smile:

[arnieboy]

I ran the script and it installed firefox 1.5 but it did not save my bookmarks; it is fast though.:smile:
do the following to get back ur your old bookmarks:
cp -f ~/.mozilla_backup/firefox/*.default/bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/

[Sajjen]

well then u do realize what u did wrong...
u shd have simply installed adblock as a regular user. the chrome registration thing should not be much of a bother unless u install extensions. the reason why its not working is because one of the extension files in your .mozilla directory is now owned by root (since u tried to install the extension as sudo).
try doing a sudo chown -R user_name:user_name $HOME/.mozilla
where u need to replace user_name by your ubuntu user name and see if that helps.

That did the trick. Thanks a lot. (Should have figured that one out myself...)

[strawman]

got it! thank you;)

[strawman]

just a note on firefox 1.5: seems like twice as fast on page loading and re-loading. also disabled ipv6 in "about:config" which helps.

[Sajjen]

That did the trick. Thanks a lot. (Should have figured that one out myself...)

Hmmm, this is strange. Seems it didn't do the trick. It worked fine until I closed Firefox and started it again. Now Adblock doesn't work, neither can I change themes. How would I go about uninstalling this? (so I can do it the right way)

[arnieboy]

Hmmm, this is strange. Seems it didn't do the trick. It worked fine until I closed Firefox and started it again. Now Adblock doesn't work, neither can I change themes. How would I go about uninstalling this? (so I can do it the right way)
adblock is a very tricky customer.. Even advanced linux users treat it with caution.
try the following after closing all firefox windows:

sudo chown -R user_name:user_name .mozilla
mv .mozilla .mozilla_wont_screw_up_this_time
restart firefox

[Sajjen]

adblock is a very tricky customer.. Even advanced linux users treat it with caution.
try the following after closing all firefox windows:

sudo chown -R user_name:user_name .mozilla
mv .mozilla .mozilla_wont_screw_up_this_time
restart firefox

That I have done, a few times. Didn't work. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I had not installed Firefox 1.0.7 before intalling 1.5?

[hey560]

I looked into the "chrome registration" error that pops up when installing/uninstalling extensions. It seems that this error does not come up when you start up firefox with super user privileges or as root. This probably means that firefox is trying to write to disk where it does not have permission. I wonder if there is a fix for this harmless yet annoying bug.

[arnieboy]

That I have done, a few times. Didn't work. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I had not installed Firefox 1.0.7 before intalling 1.5?
nopes.. ther last time adblock screwed up my firefox, I had to ditch it and move on.
try the following:
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/firefox
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/mozilla-firefoxand run the script again.

[Sajjen]

nopes.. ther last time adblock screwed up my firefox, I had to ditch it and move on.
try the following:
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/firefox
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/mozilla-firefoxand run the script again.

I think it works now. Thanks again, not just for the great script (that I managed to mess up by beeing clever), but also for the great support. Thanks!

[fog]

Works fine for me. Thanks :KS

[foxy123]

Has anyone figured out what is causing the "Chrome Registration" errors when installing extensions? The error comes up but it seems to install fine. It'd be nice if I could figure this out b/c I'm an extension author and would like to know when it really does fail.
try to remove the two extensions shipped with FF1.5.

[hpn]

It seems like this "final" release is naught more than RC3.

Does that mean SCIM still poops out Firefox 1.5 "final"?

quite so. Firefox 1.5 has been crashing even with SCIM 1.4.2 (The HOWTO describes that FF crashes with SCIM 1.0.2)

[newuser111]

this is a good guide, the new firefox (1.5) works faster than opera now

i dont see any harm in giving the /opt/firefox directory user permissions, afterall it is better than running firefox as root

[jstritar]

I looked into the "chrome registration" error that pops up when installing/uninstalling extensions. It seems that this error does not come up when you start up firefox with super user privileges or as root. This probably means that firefox is trying to write to disk where it does not have permission. I wonder if there is a fix for this harmless yet annoying bug.

I assume we can just find out where it is trying to write and give other users access to write to those files?

[hkan]

Hello everyone. Being a total newbie, forgive me if there is a too obvious solution to the error below...

I've followed the steps in the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion howto, and trying to run the command firefox just gives me this:

hkan@hkansibook:~$ firefox
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 166: /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file

UPDATE: Of course it has to do with the Apple PowerPC architecture... well, I'll leave this here if anyone else drops by having the same troubles. (Explained here. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=547841#post547841))

[martinbriscoe]

Thanks for info at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion

I have been using XP for so long that I have become phobic about command line instructions, even after many hours playing with linux my command line attempts more often than not seem to end in failure.

Is there an easy point and shoot way of downloading and upgrading to 1.5?

Many thanks

Martin
Exeter, UK

[The Warlock]

Thanks for info at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion

I have been using XP for so long that I have become phobic about command line instructions, even after many hours playing with linux my command line attempts more often than not seem to end in failure.

Is there an easy point and shoot way of downloading and upgrading to 1.5?

Many thanks

Martin
Exeter, UK

Most of the time with *nix operating systems, the command line is the easiest and quickest way to do things. Don't be scared, the command line here doesn't suck like XP's glorified version of DOS.

[snooze]

Thanks Fishfork :p .
This works for me.
Great How-To.
Worked first time.
Nvidia and Breezy.

Can't wait to see my friends drool;)

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Has anyone figured out what is causing the "Chrome Registration" errors when installing extensions? The error comes up but it seems to install fine. It'd be nice if I could figure this out b/c I'm an extension author and would like to know when it really does fail.
It happens because the ownership on the directories and files is "root", instead of the account installing the extension (yours).

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/firefox
Where "username" is your username.

This is mentioned in the Wiki article under "Updating", but it seems to be also necessary for error-free extension installation.

[Rory]

I've had two problems with the update from the wiki.

*
To ensure that other programs use version 1.5 of firefox and not the old 1.07 version, go to Preferences -> Preferred Applications in the System menu. For the "Web Browser" tab, choose "Custom" and then enter the command:
firefox %s


Where is System>Preferences>Preferred Applications>Web browser>Custom?? In Firefox? In KDE Control Center? If in Gnome, which I'm not running, what should I do?


Firefox 1.5 should now be installed and working properly. If for whatever reason you become unhappy with firefox 1.5 and would like to remove it, see the "Removing" section below for directions.

Updating

To get firefox's own update/autoupdate to work at all, you have three choices (read them all and choose one):

*
Change the /opt/firefox directory to have 'write' permissions & ownership set for the user instead of the root. To change ownership, after installation type:
sudo chown -R username:username /opt/firefox


This command didn't work from me. If my sign-in to KDE is "rory," should I typing this instead?:
sudo chown -R rory:rory /opt/firefox

And how can I confirm if worked?

Thanks,
Rory

[Dropknee]

I use the script and work great, but no have flash now, I try to install via update with the same plugin finder and failed, then try it manual install but dont work, maybe Im doing something wrong , pls help

[Dropknee]

Ok I fixed, sorry for that, need to install via synaptic the flashplayer-mozilla, then install the plugin via plug-in finder in the same browser and work now.


Sorry for that :rolleyes:

[Hobbsee]

To your first question: Kcontrol, kde components, components chooser, web browser.

sudo chown -R rory:rory /opt/firefox is definetly what you want to type in, if your username is rory. You'll be able to see if it worked when it doesnt give you error messages back, but also by doing an "ls -la /opt/firefox" and seeing no "root" but "rory" instead

[giloth]

I got the following error as well. Mind you that I am in Gnome so I expected this, but I didn't expect it to get rid of my bookmarks and other stored information.

Well it worked I guess. Ton of errors. Not really sure what happened but my version now says 1.5.

Got a popup error "Firefox could not install this item due to an error in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem".

[cjm5229]

Arnieboy,
I just want to say Thank You. As a beginner to Linux and not the most tech savvy person in the world, I have been at a loss trying to set up Ubuntu. I found your Automatix and it solved a big share of my problems. This script did a teriffic job installing FF1.5 for me. OK, It didn't bring any ext. or themes, but most of them aren't yet supported that well in FF1.5 yet anyway. I have my bookmarks backed up too, so if I had lost them it is no big deal. I tried following the directions in the firefox install wiki earlier and all I got was a lot of errors and no Firefox. This took all or 1 min and it works perfectly.
Thank You Again. Carl

[mc_bizon]

wont uninstallation of 1.0.7 remove directory .mozilla, which is now used by 1.5?
if i install a plugin through synaptic, will it work in 1.5?

[beerorkid]

so looking for a way to get 1.5 going, I searched. Not supprisingly it is arnieboy who has the answer.

Two questions before I run the script

1. ./firefox_installshould I su or sudo before this? I am figuring not, just making sure

2. It appears that the epiphany problem has been eliminated, has it?
epiphany is the only browser besides IE (shudder) that will show dialog boxes on VMwares ESX management console correctly. Needless to say that is very important to me for I am doing this on my work computer.

I will get 1.5 on my virtual XP machine and see if the viewing dialog boxes issue in ESX has been fixed. Cuz if it has, I would have no reason to use epiphany.

[mcduck]

Thanks. This script worked nice, even mplayer and flash plugins are fine, but Java doesn't work any more. I tried copying my old firefox profile to 1.5, but it didn't help. I also tried to reinstall Java but that didn't help either.

Now, would anybody know what to do to get Java working again?

[beerorkid]

answer my own questions thanks to having a secondary test laptop lying around :p

1. nope just run it as a normal user

2. the epiphany problem has been fixed.

and drumroll...........
firefox 1.5 has solved my issue with dialog boxes displaying incorrectly.
Once again big shoutout to Arnie and co who made this possible.

And the jumpy mplayer issue that has drove me completely nuts for quite some time seems to have magicaly dissapeared now that I am on 1.5

mcduck:
Mine did not have issues with java, I did loose my bookmarks (lucky for me I back them up to my web server religiously) Might I suggest automatix and reinstalling java throught it.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563&highlight=automatix

[beerorkid]

FYI: Middle mouse tab closing seems to get a little borked.
I found a post by jdong that fixed it.go to about:config, turn off middleclick.contentloadURL and middle click works again

[arnieboy]

a quick update: none of the bookmarks get deleted by the firefox script.
try this simple command from terminal to get them back (after closing all firefox windows):
cp -f ~/.mozilla_backup/firefox/*.default/bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/
If this doesnt work, then u probably stored your bookmarks under a different profile(other than the default) all of which u will get in ~/.mozilla_backup/firefox/<profile_name>/bookmarks.html
copy this html file into ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/
and u will find all your bookmarks restored for the default profile.
Hope this helps,
Arnie

[giloth]

Thanks arnieboy! Another thing I noticed is that my flash plugin was reset and had to redownload it. I have tested other plugins such as this, but I'm guessing my Java plugin for Firefox has done the same thing.

No matter though, they are easy enough to reinstall. ;)

[arnieboy]

the script copies the plugins (and symlinks for the same) from the following locations:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
and
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
where most plugins get installed by default for firefox which comes preinstalled with ubuntu.
If u have installed your plugins elsewhere, u need to copy them manually to /opt/firefox/plugins/ (of course as sudo or root)

[randcv]

Oh No! I tried installing firefox 1.5 on my own, and now I seem to have screwed something up. I decided to start all over, and just follow the instructions on the wiki, but when I get to the instruction:
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
I get the error

rand@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
dpkg-divert: Cannot divert directories

You need --help.


Anyone have any ideas? I'm a total linux newbie, but I'd really like to get this running...

Thanks,
Rand

[aum11]

Thanks Arnie for another wonderful script...I have been waiting patiently for this!

Also much thanks for Automatix. It has been a Godsend.

[Burgresso]

Yea, your scripts great. Thanks.

[mcduck]

the script copies the plugins (and symlinks for the same) from the following locations:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
and
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
where most plugins get installed by default for firefox which comes preinstalled with ubuntu.
If u have installed your plugins elsewhere, u need to copy them manually to /opt/firefox/plugins/ (of course as sudo or root)
There actually was a 'libjavaplugin.so' in /opt/firefox/plugins/, but I replaced it with a symbolic link to java plugin from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/. And now java works. Thanks Arnieboy, You're doing great job.

By the way, the script left a 'firefox' directory in my home, owned by root. I suppose that it's not needed for anything and I can just remove it?

[ndhskp]

First it does work for me. But the check for updates menu entry is greyed out. Also when I try to click a URL in Thunderbird it does not launch Firefox. I had some problems with the script also. You can see the terminal output below has a problem.

Adding `local diversion of /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu'
Adding `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Fixed by using Synaptic to install libstdc5

However this did confuse me so I ran the script a second time and it seemed to work. The terminal output is below:

mv: cannot stat `/home/username/.mozilla': No such file or directory
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
ln: `/usr/bin/firefox': File exists
ln: `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox': File exists

But this seemed to create a Firefox folder in /home/username/. Which is weird and all. Should mention that when the Firefox window popped up I had to shut it down manually using file menu. This promptly ended the script with no migration of profile componets. Of course I also got the chrome reg problem which seems to be related to root access? I did get through all that and am now running Firefox at 100MPH compred to Ubuntu's version that is a turd.

Can anybody tell me how to safely get auto update to work without risking security. And get URL calls in the system to properly start Firefox 1.5.

Thank you arnieboy for the script. I was too lazy to follow the wiki and the security problem bothered me. I sure as hell don't want scripts and other crap to have access to opt.

[fishfork]

randcv - what output do you get if you type:

ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*

[ndhskp]

arnieboy can you update your Firefox post to let people know that if URL calls in their system is not working and they have mozilla-firefox set up as the command in System/Preferences/Prefered Applications that they should try setting the command to simply firefox.

mozilla-firefox %s to: firefox %s

However this seems to revert to the select box as opposed to custom with the flag %s and all. This should fix URL calls in the system and launch Firefox 1.5. Also I forgot to mention in my earlier post I had trouble with Java as well so I simply copied the symlink manually so no real problem there. Againg thanks for the script. Sorry about the unhappy smiley face the first time around. I was just using it to express the minor script annoyances. Here's a happy one this time.

[SilentCacophony]

I also had to install libstdc++5 to get the firefox to work afterwards. I'm running from the original full release of Breezy, and I had libstdc++6 installed, if it makes a difference.

I also had to make a symlink to the java package that I previously installed.

Otherwise, no problems so far, and it seems quite nice. Thanks for the script. :)

[zasf]

Same error as TwiceOver, but that's ok

what happened was that firefox 1.0.7 was removed, ur settings backed up, version 1.5 downloaded and installed, plugins copied and some of the old settings copied back.

I lost my old settings, not that big problem.. but firefox is (i believe) now installed in my home dir, is that correct?? I'm the only user on this laptop, but what if other users need to use firefox??

matteo@zubuntu:~$ ls firefox
browserconfig.properties libnss3.so libxpistub.so
chrome libnssckbi.so mozilla-xremote-client
components libplc4.so plugins
defaults libplds4.so readme.txt
extensions libsmime3.so removed-files
firefox libsoftokn3.chk res
firefox-bin libsoftokn3.so run-mozilla.sh
greprefs libssl3.so searchplugins
icons libxpcom_compat.so updater
libmozjs.so libxpcom_core.so updater.ini
libnspr4.so libxpcom.so xpicleanup


should i reinstall it?

[arnieboy]

what error?
The post of mine that u have quoted is old and does not apply any more. the script that u have used does not remove firefox 1.0.7. it merely makes 1.5 the default.

[lynng]

I'm getting the following error when trying to follow the bulleted steps at the beginning of the wiki entry:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libstdc++5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up libxml-sax-perl (0.12-5) ...
Can't locate object method "save_parsers_debian" via package "XML::SAX" at /usr/bin/update-perl-sax-parsers line 90.
dpkg: error processing libxml-sax-perl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxml-libxml-perl:
libxml-libxml-perl depends on libxml-sax-perl (>= 0.11); however:
Package libxml-sax-perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxml-libxml-perl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxml-simple-perl:
libxml-simple-perl depends on libxml-sax-perl; however:
Package libxml-sax-perl is not configured yet.
libxml-simple-perl depends on libxml-libxml-perl | libxml-sax-expat-perl; however:
Package libxml-libxml-perl is not configured yet.
Package libxml-sax-expat-perl is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libxml-simple-perl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libxml-sax-perl
libxml-libxml-perl
libxml-simple-perl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Earlier I followed a howto on installing checkgmail, which had some commands related to perl and xml. Not sure if that could be part of the problem. Anyone know how to go on from here? I don't want to continue with the rest of the instructions for installing FF 1.5, for fear of borking firefox completely.

[nrayever]

it's not working for me!! pango problems. if someone help with this will be appreciated!!

[daedalusman]

Well, I'm having the problem where firefox would load extrenal links aka links from evolution and other programs. I have the command firefox set as my preferred application but still having this problem. Can someone shed some light on this for me, thanks.

[ceti]

Thanks, arnieboy.
Unfortunately, it didn't import anything. I lost Java & firefox plugins and that annoying alert message about Chrome shows up everytime I open Firefox.
Anyway, it's great, thank you.

[zasf]

what error?
The post of mine that u have quoted is old and does not apply any more.

this one "Firefox could not install this item due to an error in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem".

the script that u have used does not remove firefox 1.0.7. it merely makes 1.5 the default.

what i wanted to know is if firefox 1.5 was installed in my home dir. I figured out not, since i deleted ~/firefox/ and it still works. I also removed Firefox 1.0.7 with apt-get remove.

Great script, thanks

[arnieboy]

Thanks, arnieboy.
Unfortunately, it didn't import anything. I lost Java & firefox plugins and that annoying alert message about Chrome shows up everytime I open Firefox.
Anyway, it's great, thank you.
the chrome registration will show up only once after u try to install or remove an extension (not otherwise).
u can manually import your cookies and bookmarks from the backup folder ($HOME/.mozilla_backup). refer to the first post for details.
firefox gets installed in /opt/firefox

u lost your plugins because u had them installed in a non-standard location. not a problem really. find out where u had installed them and move them to /opt/firefox/plugins/

The standard locations are /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

[arnieboy]

this one "Firefox could not install this item due to an error in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem".



what i wanted to know is if firefox 1.5 was installed in my home dir. I figured out not, since i deleted ~/firefox/ and it still works. I also removed Firefox 1.0.7 with apt-get remove.

Great script, thanks
u shd not have removed firefox 1.0.7 because lots of packages in ubuntu are dependent on that. (like mozilla-mplayer, yelp, add remove applications, epiphany and they also got uninstalled along with firefox 1.0.7)

[olieviya]

How do you get to write in the folrders or your hardisk? I keep trying to paste stuff and it tells me I heven't the permission.

And I have no idea how to open the "console", anybody help?

[arnieboy]

How do you get to write in the folrders or your hardisk? I keep trying to paste stuff and it tells me I heven't the permission.

And I have no idea how to open the "console", anybody help?
Applications -->Accessories --> Terminal

what are u trying to do here? which folders are u trying to write to?

[autonomy]

Thanks

[neymac]

download it first and extract it in your home folder and then run it from gnome-terminal as follows:
./firefox_install
[/B]

I did extract to /home (my mistake) instead of /home/(My name), and run the script.
Then I use sudo to run the script, because at the first time it didn't run well.

After a while the Firefox 1.5 window opened with the google home page.

Then I closed the Firefox, and when I tried open again after a while, it did not open.

I tried reinstall. And the same: the Firefox 1.5 opened. I close it and try again and nothing.

I have put "#" in the wget line of the script to reinstall faster (not wait till download cause I had already the file).
The same. Then I commented "#" others line of the script until I have only the line: exec firefox.
I made a launcher with "run from terminal" with the the command "sudo ./firefox_install" and it works fine despite the terminal window opened for a while.

I changed the original launcher command from "firefox %u" to "sudo firefox %u" with run from terminal ticked. It worked fine. I have Firefox 1.5 and Epiphany as well.

But: How can I get free of this "sudo" and "run from terminal" of my launchers?
Do you have any clue?

[arnieboy]

I did extract to /home instead of /home/(My name), and run the script.
Then I use sudo to run the script, because at the first time it didn't run well.
This is where u did things wrong. u shd not have used sudo to run the script (that has messed up your firefox home folder permissions).
U shd have pasted the errors that u were getting while trying to run the script as normal user over here..
sudo isnt a solution to everything. Please try and understand where u need it and where u dont.

[neymac]

This is where u did things wrong. u shd not have used sudo to run the script (that has messed up your firefox home folder permissions).
U shd have pasted the errors that u were getting while trying to run the script as normal user over here..
sudo isnt a solution to everything. Please try and understand where u need it and where u dont.

Is there any way back?

[arnieboy]

try the following:
1) delete the launcher (which runs firefox as sudo in terminal) that u have made
2) open up terminal and do the following:
sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
now run firefox from the gnome applications menu just like u used to do before. DON'T run firefox as sudo

[ceti]

the chrome registration will show up only once after u try to install or remove an extension (not otherwise).
u can manually import your cookies and bookmarks from the backup folder ($HOME/.mozilla_backup). refer to the first post for details.
firefox gets installed in /opt/firefox

u lost your plugins because u had them installed in a non-standard location. not a problem really. find out where u had installed them and move them to /opt/firefox/plugins/

The standard locations are /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Arnieboy, you're right. Ev'rything's fine now. No more annoying Chrome alerts, Java ok, plugins ok.
Great HowTo, thank you and thanks for Automatix, too.

[neymac]

try the following:
1) delete the launcher (which runs firefox as sudo in terminal) that u have made
2) open up terminal and do the following:
sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
now run firefox from the gnome applications menu just like u used to do before. DON'T run firefox as sudo

It worked fine. Thank you. You did solve it very fast indeed.

[mike.holland]

First off, I really want to thank you for your wiki instructions. It has been a great resource. The only problem I ran into was the fact that McDonalds somehow managed to force Google to spider "%s" as www.mcdonalds.com. No big deal, I just removed it from my launchers. I was just curious as to the significance of adding "%s" to the launcher command. The "I'm feeling lucky" function immediately takes me to Mickey-Ds instead of my homepage.:confused:

[BinaryDigit]

This script was great :D Worked like a charm...did the workaround to get rid of the error.
Thank you!!!!

[zbowling]

To bad I'm running x86_64... I had to build firefox but that wiki link gave me anough information to use it a lot nicer.

[N8K99]

I had to install libstdc5 in order for the Firefox1.5 to work but that was my only hang up. I found my answers in this thread. Thanks alot guys!!:p

[siorai]

I have two problems:

I can't get the Flash plug-in to install. I've ran through Automatix to install Flash, tried installing flashplayer-mozilla through Synaptic, but when I go to a site that has Flash on it and try to install the plug-in, it will start to download it, but it always stalls about half way through.

The other problem is that I can't open Firefox with a keyboard shortcut. Not nearly as much of an issue as no Flash though.


edit: Ok, got Flash working by manually downloading it from Macromedia and installing it that way. Still can't use the keyboard shortcut though.

[macheadPDX]

Hi Arnieboy!

Thanks for the how-to! It works like charm!:wink:

[ceti]

Just one question: can I safely remove the Firefox folder created in my /home?

Thanks

[neymac]

I've tryed install Java pluggin with Automatix into FF 1.5. Although there wasn't any error msg, when I go into Sun's test page, it says that Java Pluggin is not installed, and there is no option to automatic install (only Manual installation is available).
I've installed the full Java as well using Automatix.
The Epiphany at the same Sun's page (http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp ) shows that I have Java working.
Do you have any tip how to link Java and FF 1.5 or any Automatix setting to Java pluggin work in FF 1.5?

[bierpullen]

Thanks

This is great !!!
Works !!!! \\:D/

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Acer laptop 1522, 528mb, AMD 64 3000, 64mb Nvidia.
http://www.antarctica-rbak.nl/ubuntu

[arnieboy]

I've tryed install Java pluggin with Automatix into FF 1.5. Although there wasn't any error msg, when I go into Sun's test page, it says that Java Pluggin is not installed, and there is no option to automatic install (only Manual installation is available).
I've installed the full Java as well using Automatix.
The Epiphany at the same Sun's page (http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp ) shows that I have Java working.
Do you have any tip how to link Java and FF 1.5 or any Automatix setting to Java pluggin work in FF 1.5?
if u have installed java with automatix, herez how to make it work with firefox 1.5:
close all firefox windows and open terminal and do:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins
now open firefox and in the site bar type:
about:plugins
and u will see java plugin listed

[arnieboy]

Just one question: can I safely remove the Firefox folder created in my /home?

Thanks
yes indeed. delete the folder.

[arnieboy]

I have two problems:

I can't get the Flash plug-in to install. I've ran through Automatix to install Flash, tried installing flashplayer-mozilla through Synaptic, but when I go to a site that has Flash on it and try to install the plug-in, it will start to download it, but it always stalls about half way through.

The other problem is that I can't open Firefox with a keyboard shortcut. Not nearly as much of an issue as no Flash though.


edit: Ok, got Flash working by manually downloading it from Macromedia and installing it that way. Still can't use the keyboard shortcut though.
I dont understand what flash has got to do with opening firefox with a shortcut.
try going to system-->preferences-->keyboard shortcuts
and look for the one which says "launch web browser".
set that to a unique keyboard combination or single key.
also make sure that "web browser" in system-->preferences-->preferred applications is set to "firefox"

if u have installed flash for firefox with automatix, herez how to install the plugins for FF 1.5:

sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/firefox/plugins
sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/firefox/components
sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/flashplayer.xpt /opt/firefox/components

whenever the destination file exists, u will get an error and thats fine cuz that tells u that the existing file doesnt need to be overwritten.

[neymac]

if u have installed java with automatix, herez how to make it work with firefox 1.5:
close all firefox windows and open terminal and do:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins
now open firefox and in the site bar type:
about:plugins
and u will see java plugin listed

Thanks once again. It worked fine. Now I have Java in Firefox 1.5.

[siorai]

I dont understand what flash has got to do with opening firefox with a shortcut.
try going to system-->preferences-->keyboard shortcuts
and look for the one which says "launch web browser".
set that to a unique keyboard combination or single key.
also make sure that "web browser" in system-->preferences-->preferred applications is set to "firefox"

It doesn't, hence why I said I had two problems. Changing the preferred application did the trick though. Thanks. :D

[randcv]

randcv - what output do you get if you type:

ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*


rand@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2005-12-08 14:26 /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/lib/mozilla -firefox-1.5/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2005-08-20 03:17 /usr/bin/firefox-1.06 -> ../lib/mozi lla-firefox/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2005-12-08 14:44 /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu -> ../lib/mo zilla-firefox/firefox

Thanks!
Rand

[tedddee]

Trying to run this script on a brand new breezy install

/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

edit: ok i installed libstdc++ 5 through synaptic, 6 was the default installed version

can i remove this locked "firefox" folder sitting in home?

[arnieboy]

Trying to run this script on a brand new breezy install

/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

edit: ok i installed libstdc++ 5 through synaptic, 6 was the default installed version

can i remove this locked "firefox" folder sitting in home?
yes delete it.

[arnieboy]

Updated the script to install libstdc++5 automatically.

[syntaxerror64]

Hello, thanks very much for this script it worked great on my new Ubuntu install.

[nauseaboy]

I just used it 10 minutes ago and it didn't really work, but I just copied everything in the /.mozilla_backup/*.default/ to /.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ and it works fine so, thanks anyway. It was a no hassle install for the most part.

[arnieboy]

I just used it 10 minutes ago and it didn't really work, but I just copied everything in the /.mozilla_backup/*.default/ to /.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ and it works fine so, thanks anyway. It was a no hassle install for the most part.

It surely did work, except that your user settings were not kept back which u copied manually from ur backed up user directory.

it wasnt a good idea to copy "everything" from your backup user directory. The usual stuff u wud be looking to copy are bookmarks, cookies etc.

[mishranurag]

The script worked for me and firefox got installed too, but it is in a directory with access to root only, that means only root can use the firefox 1.5??
I installed firefox without sudo. Please help, I am using another browser firefox is not working :((
Anurag



It surely did work, except that your user settings were not kept back which u copied manually from ur backed up user directory.

it wasnt a good idea to copy "everything" from your backup user directory. The usual stuff u wud be looking to copy are bookmarks, cookies etc.

[arnieboy]

99% of what ubuntu installs are in directories in which only root has write permissions. please try to understand how linux works.
did u try running firefox from your applications-->internet menu?

[mishranurag]

I tried running it from Applications-->Internet Menu and it didn't work!
It works from the home/firefox directory, if I get in as root!
Anurag

99% of what ubuntu installs are in directories in which only root has write permissions. please try to understand how linux works.
did u try running firefox from your applications-->internet menu?

[arnieboy]

I tried running it from Applications-->Internet Menu and it didn't work!
It works from the home/firefox directory, if I get in as root!
Anurag
did u run the script as sudo? like
sudo ./firefox_install

[mishranurag]

Nope!
I tried reinstalling it a couple of times. It didn't work!
Anurag

did u run the script as sudo? like
sudo ./firefox_install

[mishranurag]

Here is the log

anmishra@anmishra:~$ ./firefox_install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libstdc++5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
firefox-bin: no process killed
firefox: no process killed
--01:12:23-- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
=> `firefox-1.5.tar.gz.2'
Resolving ftp.mozilla.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52, 216.165.129.134, ...
Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8,444,956 (8.1M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 8,444,956 170.91K/s ETA 00:00

01:13:12 (170.55 KB/s) - `firefox-1.5.tar.gz.2' saved [8444956/8444956]

mv: cannot overwrite directory `/home/anmishra/.mozilla_backup/.mozilla'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
ln: `/usr/bin/firefox': File exists
ln: `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox': File exists
anmishra@anmishra:~$

Nope!
I tried reinstalling it a couple of times. It didn't work!
Anurag

[arnieboy]

this is a truly unique case (the first of its kind).. lol
alright try this.. open up terminal and do the following:
firefox

[mishranurag]

Nothing!
Sudo firefox, does open firefox though :)
Anurag


this is a truly unique case (the first of its kind).. lol
alright try this.. open up terminal and do the following:
firefox

[arnieboy]

Nothing!
Sudo firefox, does open firefox though :)
Anurag
alright buddy.. do this as a last ditch attempt afterclosing all firefox windows
sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
and try running firefox from the menu.

[mishranurag]

Yoooohoo
It did work.
Thanks a lot buddy.
Could you explain what could have caused the problem??
Anurag



alright buddy.. do this as a last ditch attempt afterclosing all firefox windows
sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
and try running firefox from the menu.

[arnieboy]

Yoooohoo
It did work.
Thanks a lot buddy.
Could you explain what could have caused the problem??
Anurag
the problem was that u ran the script initially as sudo (though you fail to recollect that) which overrode your mozilla user directory permissions and set them as root's.
u can now safely delete the firefox folder in your home folder.
'nite :)

[mishranurag]

Thanks Again :)
Good Night!
I would be really happy on the day when I will be able to listen music from www.raaga.com/channels/hindi (http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi) on my comp.
Anurag


the problem was that u ran the script initially as sudo (though you fail to recollect that) which overrode your mozilla user directory permissions and set them as root's.
u can now safely delete the firefox folder in your home folder.
'nite :)

[syntaxerror64]

A quick question... this script worked real well, but I am noticing now that when I click a web page link in say X-Chat that it is not opening, even if the browser is already open. I have to cut & paste the link. Any idea what would have made that happen?

[arnieboy]

A quick question... this script worked real well, but I am noticing now that when I click a web page link in say X-Chat that it is not opening, even if the browser is already open. I have to cut & paste the link. Any idea what would have made that happen?
depends on what the default browser in x-chat is set to (might be konqueror for all u know). as such for gnome apps, u need to do the following to make links open by default in firefox:
go to system -->preferences-->preferred applications
and set your default web browser as "firefox" (minus the quotes of course)

[nauseaboy]

Why is it a bad Idea to copy everything? Everything is working A-OK at the moment.

[arnieboy]

Why is it a bad Idea to copy everything? Everything is working A-OK at the moment.
because some of the extensions and themes might cause problems because of inter version compatibility.. but the operative word here is "might". good to know that everything's working great for u :)

[syntaxerror64]

depends on what the default browser in x-chat is set to (might be konqueror for all u know). as such for gnome apps, u need to do the following to make links open by default in firefox:
go to system -->preferences-->preferred applications
and set your default web browser as "firefox" (minus the quotes of course)

Thanks Arnie, I changed the "system -->preferences-->preferred applications" and that seems to have fixed it right up.

[arnieboy]

Thanks Arnie, I changed the "system -->preferences-->preferred applications" and that seems to have fixed it right up.
awesome :)

[nauseaboy]

because some of the extensions and themes might cause problems because of inter version compatibility.. but the operative word here is "might". good to know that everything's working great for u :)


Ah that explains it. I wasn't running any extensions or themes to begin with.

[hl2u]

So...my first noob question :-) :

-breezy on amd 64 ;
-downloaded the script and runned it ;
-got the "mozilla quality feedback agent " prompt;
- firefox is not opening;


me@mymachine:~$ ./firefox_install
Password:
Citire liste de pachete... Gata
Se construieşte arborele de dependenţă... Gata
libstdc++5 are deja cea mai nouă versiune.
0 înnoite, 0 nou instalate, 0 de şters şi 2 neînnoite.
W: Nu pot determina starea listei surse de pachete http://public.planetmirror.com breezy/free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/public.planetmirror.com_pub_plf_ubuntu_plf_dists_b reezy_free_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Nu pot determina starea listei surse de pachete http://public.planetmirror.com breezy/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/public.planetmirror.com_pub_plf_ubuntu_plf_dists_b reezy_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Nu pot determina starea listei surse de pachete ftp://ftp.free.fr breezy/free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.free.fr_pub_Distributions%5fLinux_plf_ubuntu_p lf_dists_breezy_free_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)W: Nu pot determina starea listei surse de pachete ftp://ftp.free.fr breezy/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.free.fr_pub_Distributions%5fLinux_plf_ubuntu_p lf_dists_breezy_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Nu pot determina starea listei surse de pachete http://deb.opera.com etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.opera.com_opera_dists_etch_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Aţi putea vrea să porniţi 'apt-get update' pentru a corecta aceste probleme.
firefox-bin: nici un proces nu a fost terminat
firefox: nici un proces nu a fost terminat
--11:50:13-- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
=> `firefox-1.5.tar.gz.1'
Rezolvare ftp.mozilla.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52, 216.165.129.134, ...
Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org|64.50.236.52|:80... conectat.
Cerere HTTP trimisă, se aşteaptă răspuns... 200 OK
Dimensiune: 8,444,956 (8.1M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 8,444,956 192.73K/s ETA 00:00

11:50:57 (189.81 KB/s) - `firefox-1.5.tar.gz.1' saved [8444956/8444956]

Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
ln: `/usr/bin/firefox': File exists
ln: `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox': File exists

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libindustrial.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:9502): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 9502 Aborted "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
me@mymachine:~$



How am I going to fix what i've broke ? Thank's in advance !

[arnieboy]

seems to be some pango package missing.. possibly libpango or some other internationalized package? Its a locale specific error. Somebody with more knowledge on locale specific errors will be able to help.
for the time being try to change to the human theme and give firefox a shot and post the errors again.

[Vantskruv]

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion: Notes You may get an error dialog (twice) each time Firefox starts up saying Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem.. This is due to [WWW] this bug. To work round do the following:- sudo touch /opt/firefox/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest The only thing I did do was to edit the link for firefox in the menu and set the working folder to the folder where firefox is installed, in my case "/opt/firefox".

(I'm using Kubuntu, but I guess you can do almost the same thing in Ubuntu)

[MotoWebmaster]

arnieboy - You The Man!

I just ran your firefox 1.5 install script. Went as you stated, and I had the bookmarks restore command ready to go at the end.

Noticed your other script, haven't tried it yet but did catch some of the negative comments from others. I can tell you from years of experience, taking a leadership role and donating your time/talents ultimately means that you'll run into situations that will challenge your resolve. In some ways, life is too short to be burden by those who try to take advantage - but on the other hand, I find that pushing forward can help you be creative in ways not previously imagined.

I appreciate all you do!

[hl2u]

arnieboy, thanks again for your help.
changed to "human" theme and :



me@mymachine:~$ ./firefox_install
Password:
E: Nu pot determina blocajul /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
firefox-bin: nici un proces nu a fost terminat
firefox: nici un proces nu a fost terminat
--21:01:22-- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
=> `firefox-1.5.tar.gz.3'
Rezolvare ftp.mozilla.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 216.165.129.134, ...
Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org|64.50.238.52|:80... conectat.
Cerere HTTP trimisă, se aşteaptă răspuns... 200 OK
Dimensiune: 8,444,956 (8.1M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 8,444,956 192.67K/s ETA 00:00

21:02:06 (189.51 KB/s) - `firefox-1.5.tar.gz.3' saved [8444956/8444956]

mv: cannot overwrite directory `/home/mama/.mozilla_backup/.mozilla'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
ln: `/usr/bin/firefox': File exists
ln: `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox': File exists

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:31894): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 31894 Aborted "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
me@mymachine:~$ Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default

[kscelt]

Everything worked fine except for needing to fix flash with a re-install, and Java, which has me stumped.

The problem, I believe, is that an incorrect file for the plugin is in the opt/firefox/plugins directory. There are two java related files there: libjavaplugin.so and libjavaplugin_oji.so, both of which are owned by root.

The java version I am currently using is:

java version "1.5.0_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

When I type "about:plugins" in the browser, it states that the java plugin is:

Java(TM) Plug-in Blackdown-1.4.2-02

There is a libjavaplugin_oji.so file in my /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7 directory, which is owned by root.

How do I fix this?

[arnieboy]

do the following and u shd be fine:
sudo rm -f /opt/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins/

[kscelt]

Thanks much - it worked!

[arnieboy]

hl2u: this is what u need to do I think. Open synaptic and search for "pango" under "search for package under names" and install all the packages listed. and then try running firefox (not the installation) again from terminal.

[kscelt]

Rats, no it did not. Still says I am using the blackdown plugin.

Now in the opt/firefox/plugins directory, I have two files related to java:

libjavaplugin_oji.so and ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so (which under properties is indicated as a broken link).

[kscelt]

ah, a clue - the target file for the link is:

/usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so

wrong file name being pointed to?

[arnieboy]

Rats, no it did not. Still says I am using the blackdown plugin.

Now in the opt/firefox/plugins directory, I have two files related to java:

libjavaplugin_oji.so and ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so (which under properties is indicated as a broken link).
oops my bad, I made a typo last time. do the following:
sudo rm -f /opt/firefox/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins/

[kscelt]

Well, I was trying to fix before I read your last reply. Bad idea, lol.

Now I have deleted the libjavaplugin.so and the libjavaplugin_oji.so

Then tried your last code, and I now do not have a libjavaplugin.so file and the browser indicates no java plugin is installed.

Sorry to be such a pain.

I do have a libjavaplugin_oji.so file, however

[hl2u]

hl2u: this is what u need to do I think. Open synaptic and search for "pango" under "search for package under names" and install all the packages listed. and then try running firefox (not the installation) again from terminal.

ok, did install everything ;) related to pango, in Synaptic.
runned Firefox from terminal and :



me@mymachine:~$ firefox

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversia de la setul de caractere „UTF-8” la „ISO-8859-1” nu este suportată

(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(firefox-bin:8383): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 8383 Aborted "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
me@mymachine:~$ Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default

[kscelt]

Please disregard, all is now great - thanks so much for the help

[kimme]

It worked here. :)

[arnieboy]

hl2u: I am quite sure the errors being thrown are locale related. I am sorry but I am not really an expert on locale related issues because the only language I have ever used on my computers is American English. I wish I could help u more though.

[makis]

It worked out of the box.

Thx Arnieboy!

[majikstreet]

hl2u

could you please put all those errors in a tag like this: [-code-] errors [-/code-] without the "-"? It'd make it a lot easier to navigate the thread... (Hope I'm not being too much of an ***...)

[arnieboy]

hl2u:
please do the following:
sudo apt-get install libpango1.0-0
and then try running firefox again

[lonetree]

Help! mine don't seem to work at all. I tried the Howto, it didn't work, and now I tried the script from arnieboy, but it still doesn't work. when I start firefox from console it gives an error.

stealth@linux-nb:~$ firefox
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 10429 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}


What could be wrong? Hope someone can help

regards,

[arnieboy]

do the following:
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
and run the script again

[lonetree]

thanks arnieboy, will try that later on. Thanks for your reply.

[Ric Fischer]

if it works for u, please do post on the thread to say so. :)
The install went just fine for me. I love arnieboy's work.

Java didn't work, but after doing the Java 1.5 fix mentioned earlier (where the user kept seeing the Blackdown version of Java instead of 1.5), even that's working.

I also used the new version of the form widgets "update" for Firefox 1.5. The message notes it's for the Firefox 1.5 as per the instructions on the Wiki, but the same steps worked for me in the arnieboy version, too. (Probably because arnieboy's script seems to do all the same things.)

Thanks, arnieboy!

[weeguy]

do the following:
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
and run the script again

Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu'
Leaving `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
ln: `/usr/bin/firefox': File exists
ln: `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox': File exists
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 14346 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Had the same problem and "sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox" didn't help. Any idea?

[lonetree]

do the following:
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
and run the script again

Hi arnieboy, did what you mentioned, it din work. Kinda upset, looks like I have to reinstall the whole thing again and do lotsa stuff from scratch again. Sigh!

[lonetree]

Hi guys,

I solved the problem. If you have install SCIM, this could be the problem (firefox unable to start with error

/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 8175 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

or something similar

Solution :

# sudo gedit /usr/bin/mozilla

add "export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim" without the quotes, before the line
moz_pis_startstop_scripts()

save it, and run firefox. It will throw 2 error, after which everything back to normal operation the next time you start firefox again.

However, java runtime need to relink, wonder if I still remember how to, can someone highlight? Also, I have not try adobe plugins and some other plugins.

Anyway, I hope this helps some of you guys out there. Remember, my problem is due to SCIM, and I presume this only could be solved if you have SCIM installed.

to confirm that this is the problem, try this in console first :

# GTK_IM_MODULE=xim firefox

regards,

[weeguy]

I wouldn't consider this a solution, since you would not be able to to use SCIM using this method, hence crippling the browser. Anyway, hpn compiled a version of Firefox 1.5 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=92303&page=2) that works with SCIM, so SCIM users might want to try that out.

btw: lonetree, glad to see another user from Singapore around here. :) And follow the instructions here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats#head-ef347c277a133b64af0600bd1bf24bc64e7038b8) to relink java.

[tomski]

Hi there Arnieboy,
i was just wondering if the issue's with the plugins for FF1.5 have been resloved
because a few friends have told me that it is having problems with active x controls and i need that plugin to work as i have created a couple of sites that use active x or is it just a case of copying over the relevant files from the FF1.0.7 dir to get them all working??

[lonetree]

I wouldn't consider this a solution, since you would not be able to to use SCIM using this method, hence crippling the browser. Anyway, hpn compiled a version of Firefox 1.5 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=92303&page=2) that works with SCIM, so SCIM users might want to try that out.

btw: lonetree, glad to see another user from Singapore around here. :) And follow the instructions here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats#head-ef347c277a133b64af0600bd1bf24bc64e7038b8) to relink java.

Hi weeguy,

thanks for your reply. Seriously, I was in a rush to try that "solution", and didn't notice that SCIM was crippled. Will try later.

Where can I get the SCIM supported ff1.5 that you mentioned just now?

Btw, are you from singapore too?

[jrib]

Hi there Arnieboy,
i was just wondering if the issue's with the plugins for FF1.5 have been resloved
because a few friends have told me that it is having problems with active x controls and i need that plugin to work as i have created a couple of sites that use active x or is it just a case of copying over the relevant files from the FF1.0.7 dir to get them all working??

Firefox doesn't use activex. Activex has been the cause of several of IE's security vulnerabilities. A quick google search gave me this (http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm) but I have no idea if it works. I'd try to stay away from activex personally.

[arnieboy]

Firefox doesn't use activex. Activex has been the cause of several of IE's security vulnerabilities. A quick google search gave me this (http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm) but I have no idea if it works. I'd try to stay away from activex personally.
this is interesting.. never knew there were working on an active X plugin for mozilla..

[lonetree]

You are right, Weeguy, it really has crippled my SCIM, while I don't really need to type chinese or other language, only sometimes. But the feeling of being crippled is too upset.

Hope someone can get this sovled soon.

So embarass to have posted that so-call solution up there.

One thing I like about ff1.5 is it solve flash problem for me, I used to be only able to load 1/2 or 1/4 of a page for some flash website, now it seem that it is solved, but I may be wrong again. :-)

regards,

[tomski]

I'd try to stay away from activex personally.

So do i, but i have to have it so i can edit/update my clients site & make sure its all working.
looks like i'll have to try another way

[arnieboy]

yeah active X is a security nightmare on windows.. they realized it a little late.. too late to roll it back..

[tomski]

aint it just, but some people won't let go.
still luckily i dual boot so not much of a problem but i am hoping to leave windows just seems *nix has its differences so just tring to find different answers to similar problems.

how would this script affect FF use in E17 or other wm's

[exkalibur]

Thanks again for your efforts and good work. The script worked really well and it is sure appreciated.

Regards

[tomski]

thanks arnieboy
FF1.5 is so quick

[swmiller6]

I am getting this error message after typing firefox into the comandline...

/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 15882 Floating point exception"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Any help would be greeatly apperciated.

[Nunsta]

Excellent script. Thanks again, arnieboy.

I had some trouble with the Flash/Shockwave plugins, but I figured out how to install them.

Nice work, as usual.

[lonetree]

I am getting this error message after typing firefox into the comandline...

/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 15882 Floating point exception"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Any help would be greeatly apperciated.

Hi Swmiller6,

do you have SCIM installed on your ubuntu?

[dguido]

Any word on when this is going to be put in breezy-backports? I don't want to screw up my system by installing 1.5 from source and then installing the dpkg over it when it comes out.

[foxy123]

Any word on when this is going to be put in breezy-backports? I don't want to screw up my system by installing 1.5 from source and then installing the dpkg over it when it comes out.
you won't screw your system by installing FF1.5 in /opt. As soon as it is available from repositories (which can take a while) you have to follow the section in wiki about how to uninstall it and remove /opt/firefox and then install 1.5 from repos... Answering your first question, there is a topic about backporting FF1.5 in Backports forum...

[Nunsta]

I guess I did do something wrong.

When I install extensions and restart Firefox, I get the following error

"Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem."

I can click okay, the extension installs, and everything is fine. It does this every time I install an extension.

I tried the following and it had no effect
sudo chown -R mark:mark $HOME/.mozilla

[Mudbream]

Thanks dude!
Seemed I installed it as sudo but then followed some of your instructions in this list and it works fine now! Even my icons that were pointing to the old version are now pointing to the new one!
Thanks - made life alot easier!

[NewToUbuntuAlex]

It works exactly as described.
Thanks! :)

[TimelessRogue]

I've downloaded and installed Foxfire 1.5 on my laptop and workstation for both Windoze and Ubuntu (on both) during the past 48 hours (not that it took me that long!) ... at this point, all is well on all fronts and I've had no errors or malfunctions. I'm impressed with both Firefox and all of the extensions that are available for it ... including but not limited to Nautilus - my favorite theme.

I tried both installation methods for Ubuntu: the one recommended by Firefox and the one detailed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion. The first worked sorta but was not as easy as the Wiki.Ubuntu.com methond ... not as simple as a "normal" install, but not particularly difficult either.

So kudos to all involved in the upgrade ... much improved ... thanks ...

[lonetree]

has nobody com out with a solution for SCIM and FF1.5 yet?

[adam.tropics]

A bit confused about permissions etc. I can sudo firefox and start it from the command line, but am unable to start it from a link! As far as I can tell it should, but if i try, I get "Firefox is already running but not responding, to open a new window you must first close the existing firefox process, or restart your system."

Can't find any firefox processes running, and restart just gives same result again. Any ideas??

[pcatiprodotnet]

How do I install Flash now?
Installing from the repositories didn't work.
[solved]
nevermind. after adding flash from the repositories, I re-ran the install script and it works now.

[swmiller6]

Hi Swmiller6,

do you have SCIM installed on your ubuntu?


No I do not have SCIM installed... Should I have it installed?

[pizzach]

has nobody com out with a solution for SCIM and FF1.5 yet?

From what I read directly off of scim's web site (http://www.scim-im.org/) it's from binary incompatibility. Therfore if you compile 1.5 yourself, scim should work. (Don't know if you need to compile scim too.) Which is probably why downloading the binary from mozilla.com doesn't work.

Correct me anyone if I'm wrong.

[Chrissss]

The main reason I am looking forward for official package is that I want to compile moztrabiff extension for 1.5 and need firefoox development package.
When you check out the CVS Code of moztraybiff, you also get precompiled binaries. The "mozTrayBiff-1.2-i486-linux-gnu-tb1.5.xpi" works for me (Breezy and TB 1.5RC1)

http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/devel.html

CU
CHristoph

[foxy123]

When you check out the CVS Code of moztraybiff, you also get precompiled binaries. The "mozTrayBiff-1.2-i486-linux-gnu-tb1.5.xpi" works for me (Breezy and TB 1.5RC1)

http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/devel.html

CU
CHristoph
thanks a lot...

[x__dark]

to anyone who used this installation guide, have you run into any problems with firefox 1.5 crashing a lot?

[foxy123]

to anyone who used this installation guide, have you run into any problems with firefox 1.5 crashing a lot?
no, it works fine...

[lonetree]

No I do not have SCIM installed... Should I have it installed?

No. If you have SCIM installed, you wil have the same error too. Mine have. I am hoping for some solutions to come out soon. Cheers

[arnieboy]

I guess I did do something wrong.

When I install extensions and restart Firefox, I get the following error

"Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem."

I can click okay, the extension installs, and everything is fine. It does this every time I install an extension.

I tried the following and it had no effect
sudo chown -R mark:mark $HOME/.mozilla
this is is a known issue with firefox 1.5. The solution is giving user write permissions to the install directory (/opt/firefox) which is suicidal in terms of security.
It should not be a hassle, because at the end of the day, u will not be installing a dozen extensions every day, just using firefox, and chrome registration errors wont show up in that case.

[lost.sync]

nice. went off without a hitch. i don't use firefox that much but it's nice to have around when some site starts complaining about opera.

thanks, man.

[swmiller6]

SO nobody has any ideas on this?
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 15882 Floating point exception"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I really do not see how anybody can be productive on linux snice I have installed ubuntu all I have been doing is trying to get things to work properly... I mean really something as simple as installing the latest version of a thrid party software is not suppose to be this hard.
I can not seem to even watch a simple dvd and yeah the dma mode is on, if I want the latest version of say Inkscape or the Gimp I have to wait who knows how long for the repositories to be updated.
And before anybody says I should complie it myself yeah like I have all day to track down dependencies and search countless wiki's to get a simple program to work!!!

Ok now I feel better..... Sorry for the rant....

[Mr. Electric Wizard]

Script worked wonderfully, thanks Arnie:p
1.5 is much, much better!:D

[lonetree]

SO nobody has any ideas on this?
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 15882 Floating point exception"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I really do not see how anybody can be productive on linux snice I have installed ubuntu all I have been doing is trying to get things to work properly... I mean really something as simple as installing the latest version of a thrid party software is not suppose to be this hard.
I can not seem to even watch a simple dvd and yeah the dma mode is on, if I want the latest version of say Inkscape or the Gimp I have to wait who knows how long for the repositories to be updated.
And before anybody says I should complie it myself yeah like I have all day to track down dependencies and search countless wiki's to get a simple program to work!!!

Ok now I feel better..... Sorry for the rant....

hahahaha swmiller6,

relax, thats linux, I have the same kind of feelings you have previously. You will find the beauty of it one day. Just think that you know somwthing new that most don't. Anyway, I do hope that one day all linux distro will be standardize and installing and upgrading of packages will be as easy. Now, just learn what we can and what we know.

Cheers

[armada]

How to do it without messing up your system and confusing the package manager (hopefully!)

The Howto is on the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion. Comments here please.

I tried it last night unwittingly without libstdc++5 installed and messed up my system.

Had to re-install ubuntu from scratch.

Now I do have a great ubuntu with Firefox 1.5.

Did encounter the chrome bug and use "sudo touch ..." to fix it.

Strongly suggest newbies to backup your ubuntu before attempting this.

[ubuntu27]

Hello guys! :) Thank you for helping me each time I'm in trouble :D Anyway. I've installed Firefox 1.5 with this wonderful script !!
Anway, look at the attached image.

As you can see Synaptic thinks I still have Firefox 1.0.7
Do you think something went wrong?

EDIT: Never mind, I've read the whole thread. SO, it means that Firefox 1.0.7 was not unistalled. and that Firefox 1.5 was intalled and made it default. :)

Great.
Thanks ArnieyBoy for the script. It works perfectly !!

[adam.tropics]

I have firefox 1.5 running about right, except I am unable to select text in the address bar using either the mouse or keyboard. I can delete from the beginning, but not backspace from the end!!Very wierd!!

Edit: Turns out it was the widgets! Restoring Res folder solved it.!

[kathymacau]

I ran the script and updated ff to 1.5. Now when I go to a page which uses Java ff shuts down. I have read the whole thread and applied all the Java fixes with no change. Just a tad annoyed cos I had the old version working almost the way I wanted but am willing to persivere till I get it right. I must mention that I had no error messages when I used the code, I also reinstalled Java using Automatix.

[arnieboy]

I ran the script and updated ff to 1.5. Now when I go to a page which uses Java ff shuts down. I have read the whole thread and applied all the Java fixes with no change. Just a tad annoyed cos I had the old version working almost the way I wanted but am willing to persivere till I get it right. I must mention that I had no error messages when I used the code, I also reinstalled Java using Automatix.
please paste the results of
java -version

[kathymacau]

Thanks for the quick response.

java version "1.5.0_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

[arnieboy]

Thanks for the quick response.

java version "1.5.0_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
try this:
sudo rm -f /opt/firefox/plugins/libjava*
sudo ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins/

[kathymacau]

try this:
sudo rm -f /opt/firefox/plugins/libjava*
sudo ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins/

Now I'm getting onto the site I want and am being asked to install the required plug-in, which would be java-plugin for firefox (I'm guessing)

[arnieboy]

Now I'm getting onto the site I want and am being asked to install the required plug-in, which would be java-plugin for firefox (I'm guessing)
no! java plugin was already installed.
do the following:
open up firefox and in the address bar type:
about:plugins
and scroll down and tell me if u see your java plugin listed there or not.

[kathymacau]

no! java plugin was already installed.
do the following:
open up firefox and in the address bar type:

and scroll down and tell me if u see your java plugin listed there or not.

Java plugin isn't listed

[arnieboy]

Java plugin isn't listed
please paste the results of:
ls /opt/firefox/plugins

[kathymacau]

please paste the results of:
ls /opt/firefox/plugins

flashplayer.xpt mplayerplug-in-qt.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
libflashplayer.so mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt mplayerplug-in.xpt
libjavaplugin_oji.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so nphelix.so
libnullplugin.so mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt nphelix.xpt
mplayerplug-in-gmp.so mplayerplug-in.so nppdf.so
mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt mplayerplug-in-wmp.so

[arnieboy]

good. you have ur java plugin installed. close all your browser windows, restart firefox and enjoy java :)

[r4ik]

First of all thanks for the script.
Will you have a look at this output.
I think i missed something somewhere somehow.
When run the script again Firefox pops up in the middle.
I checked no java there.
Is there a work around please ?


r4ik@compu:~$ ls /opt/firefox/plugins
libjavaplugin.so libnullplugin.so nppdf.so
r4ik@compu:~$

[kathymacau]

good. you have ur java plugin installed. close all your browser windows, restart firefox and enjoy java :)

Sorry, but it still isn't working. Giving up for now and heading to bed. 3am my time.

[rjwood]

here's mine arnieboy and I don't have java working either.rob@ubuntu:~$ ls /opt/firefox/plugins
libjavaplugin.so libnullplugin.so

[arnieboy]

for those of u who have java 1.5 installed, follow instructions on post # 189 on this thread.

[r4ik]

Will do so thank you.
Sorry for beeing a lazy (beep) i havent read it all.

[r4ik]

No Java plug there re-install ?

Shockwave Flash

Bestandsnaam: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

MIME-type Beschrijving Achtervoegsels Actief
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Ja
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Ja
Default Plugin

Bestandsnaam: libnullplugin.so
The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.

MIME-type Beschrijving Achtervoegsels Actief
* All types .* Nee
Adobe Reader 7.0

Bestandsnaam: nppdf.so
The Adobe Reader plugin is used to enable viewing of PDF and FDF files from within the browser.

MIME-type Beschrijving Achtervoegsels Actief
application/pdf Portable Document Format pdf Ja
application/vnd.fdf Acrobat Forms Data Format fdf Ja
application/vnd.adobe.xfdf XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format xfdf Ja
application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml Acrobat XML Data Package xdp Ja
application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml Adobe FormFlow99 Data File xfd Ja

[unwoken]

Hi arnieboy,

thanks for this script, once again. it's really nice to know that people like you are here to help us mortals ;)

i am having a slight problem now i have 1.5 installed. it is to do with the 'text zoom' extension from: http://www.cosmicat.com/extensions/textzoom/

i admit that i had to edit the install.rdf to get it to work as the max version wasn't high enough. it does work fine, and this is certainly not a complaint (as i know it has nothing to do with you), but i'll tell you what's going on anyway, as you know a lot more than me about these sort of things.

i can set the text zoom level, and everything works perfectly. however, if i restart a saved session (through tab mix plus settings) or open all tabs from a bookmark folder the text zoom is not applied.

i have removed the saved session function on tab mix plus, and don't often open all bookmarks from a particular folder in tabs anyway (i generally do it to test settings on various pages).

anyway, this was working fine on 1.0.7. do you think that i am having this problem because the extension has not yet been formally updated to 1.5? or could it be something else?

i am very happy though, and would like to thank you again for all the help you have offered, and time you have given...

cheers,
uw.

[r4ik]

Firefox died completely had to install opera and re-run the script
Here's my output at this moment,

r4ik@compu:~$ ls /opt/firefox/plugins
libjavaplugin_oji.so libnullplugin.so nppdf.so
r4ik@compu:~$

The #189 did not give any result.
Something has to be wrong on my side. :)

[ubuntu27]

Need help :( ok, firefox installed fine. I can install Extension like I always do from my user account (the first account), but the rest of the user accoun can't install any extensiosn at all. I don't remember the error that gives me.. I think it was chromo something...

ah.. and that chromo error keep apearing even in my account each time I install new extensions :shock:

[NunoCorreia]

I didn't read the rest of thread because it was big so I don't know if this has been addressed yet, but after installing FF with the script (which went great, good work ;)) code fields - like those frequently used here to represent commands - appear blank. Although I'm able to select the text and paste somewhere else to see what it is, that's a PITA :???:

Has anyone seen this happen yet and was able to solve it?

[galderz]

i've followed instructions in wiki, but i get to the point of executing firefox and it says that it is an invalid command. checked permissions and x is avaiable for everyone. files are there and ln is pointing to /opt/firefox/firefox

:/opt/firefox$ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5239 2005-11-12 00:59 firefox

anything i might be missing?im newbie

[akniss]

The howto on the wiki worked perfectly for me! Thanks!

[kathymacau]

Sorry, but it still isn't working. Giving up for now and heading to bed. 3am my time.

Arnieboy thank you, all is go. Funny how I could see the problem after a sleep. Could not have done it without your help though, and I have learned heaps. Must have a look at a command line tutorial though, so I know what instructions are doing, rather than simply following blindly.

[rjwood]

rob@ubuntu:~$ java -version
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This is interesting because in my home folder I have jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586

[rjwood]

never mind I did the smart thing and read the thread and found my problem.

arnie, you are an outstanding member of this community. Thank you for all the help. Not just on this but other assistence you have given me. Cheers! to a good guy!!

[naturalhl2]

Ok im having an issue installing this
I download firefox and I extract to home folder then I go to
applications-accessories-terminal and then I do that ./firefox_install thing and it says File or directory cannot be found any ideas?
How do I run the gnome terminal or is that the terminal under accesories