tipiglen
October 31st, 2009, 01:42 PM
Thismorning I received notice of some "security" upgrades to firefox. I installed them and thought nothing further of it until I opened firefox and found it loaded fine, but there was no ability to use the mouse (touchpad) pointer to click on anything (except to close firefox), no ability to switch tabs, scroll in the 'active' tab, etc. In short, not working, useless.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the meta package that checks for updates, etc. All with no change in behaviour.
This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu.
Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version upgrades for
this package in future.
In the (very) long run, firefox becomes normally functional (at present with the meta uninstalled), and strangely I notice it a lot less hungry for processor time (in system monitor) What's going on, one wonders.
Otherwise a thoroughly excellent implementation
Ciao
ed
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the meta package that checks for updates, etc. All with no change in behaviour.
This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu.
Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version upgrades for
this package in future.
In the (very) long run, firefox becomes normally functional (at present with the meta uninstalled), and strangely I notice it a lot less hungry for processor time (in system monitor) What's going on, one wonders.
Otherwise a thoroughly excellent implementation
Ciao
ed