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aakaasha
April 15th, 2010, 07:00 AM
Hi there!

Yesterday I tried to update Firefox from 3.0.19 to 3.6 using this instructions: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-firefox-3-6-stable-from-ubuntu-ppa.html

Installation went without problems, but now I can not start Firefox! :( The FF icon in the taskbar changed to a globe and says "Namoroka - FF pre-release" but firefox doesn't start by clicking onto it. I tried to manually remove all firefox packages and reinstalling either 3.0 or 3.6 but same problem again. I also installed epiphany too, but it shows the error "epiphany cannot be used at the moment, because initialization of mozilla failed".

Please help me, I want to use the new Firefox (or old one, if 3.6 not possible) in Ubuntu!

P.S.: Now I'm writing with FF from my Windows installation under Wine.

crichard
April 15th, 2010, 07:45 AM
Uninstall your previous installed Firefox packages & also don't forget to remove the PPA key. It's possible to install new Firefox in Ubuntu. Have a look at this post to install Firefox / Thunderbird in Ubuntu. (http://surferzworld.com/?p=193)

Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193567)