Firefox +1 Mega Thread

[lovinglinux]

My flash games (Backyard Monster on FB) in firefox runs much slower than in chrome. Is this my graphic card problem or firefox problem?

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=615

[lovinglinux]

I install it, but there is something wrong with it.

I suppose your thread has been merged I can't locate the original message. What exactly is your problem?

[Nichtswisser]

The title says it all. How do I install from a .tar.gz file? The software center only seems to have the old Firefox 3.6 and there really is a huge speed difference between those two versions.

[bodhi.zazen]

The title says it all. How do I install from a .tar.gz file? The software center only seems to have the old Firefox 3.6 and there really is a huge speed difference between those two versions.

Welcome to the megathread.

Read the first post on this thread.

To answer your question, see my last post on this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=601

[kurok]

follow the instructions in this thread. I did and it worked perfectly. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1712247
good luck

[Sunfist]

I must be entering something wrong when I type the first line sudo add -apt (ect) I get an error saying command add not found, is add and -apt all one word? Never mind..found my problem, got FF4 up and running

[dniMretsaM]

Just installed it last night after using Nightly. Decided to move to 4.0 so I can use addons other than AdBlock Plus. Anyway, when I try to run it it tells me another process is running and that I need to close it or restart my computer. Well, I restarted my computer and it still gave me the error so I ran

sudo killall firefox
sudo killall firefox-4.0
sudo killall firefox-trunk

They all said that no process could be found. Right now I'm using Chromium, but I would really like to get this fixed. Any ideas?

EDIT: I reinstalled it, but I'm still getting the error.

[lovinglinux]

Just installed it last night after using Nightly. Decided to move to 4.0 so I can use addons other than AdBlock Plus. Anyway, when I try to run it it tells me another process is running and that I need to close it or restart my computer. Well, I restarted my computer and it still gave me the error so I ran

sudo killall firefox
sudo killall firefox-4.0
sudo killall firefox-trunk

They all said that no process could be found. Right now I'm using Chromium, but I would really like to get this fixed. Any ideas?

EDIT: I reinstalled it, but I'm still getting the error.

Please execute the following commands, then post the contents of the generated firefox-report.txt file, located on your Desktop.

echo 'Ubuntu Architecture' > ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
uname -a >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Ubuntu Version' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
cat /etc/lsb-release >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox Packages' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'firefox*' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox binaries' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
which firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/local/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /opt/firefox/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox divertion' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Sources' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt

[dniMretsaM]

Ok, here's the file.

[lovinglinux]

Ok, here's the file.

First try:

killall firefox-bin

Also, you have two ppa repositories for Firefox. If you don't want the nightly versions, you should disable ubuntu-mozilla-daily in the software sources and reinstall Firefox. You are probably not using the firefox-stable ppa as expected, since the ubuntu-mozilla-daily has newer versions.