Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread

[phillw]

Hiya lovinglinux,

A quick question, I'm still on FF Namoroka (3.6.1pre) on both my 9.10 and 10.04 - Is it time to update both to a full release ? (and if so, point me to the directions )

Not sure if this is what i need ?

For ubuntu karmic/Lucid users
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Thanks,

Phill.

[lovinglinux]

Hiya lovinglinux,

A quick question, I'm still on FF Namoroka (3.6.1pre) on both my 9.10 and 10.04 - Is it time to update both to a full release ? (and if so, point me to the directions )

Not sure if this is what i need ?


Thanks,

Phill.

Yep, that's is what I use. Nevertheless, you won't need that on Lucid, since it already has Firefox 3.6. Disable any ppa for Firefox that you have and re-install firefox.

[phillw]

re-install firefox.

Hmm.. Well, I tried the

sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

and it said it went a getting, and firefox then went a getting updates for extensions.. Still says 3.6.1pre and Namoroka ..

I've just rsync'd everything over to my 'other' /home - How do i "re-install" ?

/edit - which reminds me .... I haven't backed up to my other, other home recently

Thanks,

Phill.

[lovinglinux]

Hmm.. Well, I tried the

sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

and it said it went a getting, and firefox then went a getting updates for extensions.. Still says 3.6.1pre and Namoroka ..

I've just rsync'd everything over to my 'other' /home - How do i "re-install" ?

/edit - which reminds me .... I haven't backed up to my other, other home recently

Thanks,

Phill.

First remove or disable the ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa, then add the mozillateam/firefox-stable ppa then remove firefox and firefox-3.6, then install firefox only. Don't worry, it will say that firefox-3.5 will be installed, but in fact it will be 3.6.

[phillw]

First remove or disable the ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa, then add the mozillateam/firefox-stable ppa then remove firefox and firefox-3.6, then install firefox only. Don't worry, it will say that firefox-3.5 will be installed, but in fact it will be 3.6.

yikes !!!
Synaptics shows ...

firefox 3.6.1~hg20100125r35540+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1
ubufox 0.8-0ubuntu1
firefox-branding 3.6.1~hg20100125r35540+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1

Which am i marking, and for removal or complete removal ?

Phill.

[lovinglinux]

yikes !!! Am i removing or removing completely ?

Phill.

It doesn't matter. Just make sure to re-install any dependencies like ubuntu-desktop if the package manager also remove them. I'm on KDE, so I forget about those details.

[phillw]

okies - here goes

Phill.

[phillw]

Thanks.

3.6 - canonical 1.0 and Firefox branding.



Phill.

[lovinglinux]

Thanks.

3.6 - canonical 1.0 and Firefox branding.



Phill.

You are welcome

[misha680]

Anyone tried 3.0.18 (compilation with PGO). I am getting strange errors on checkinstall:

./nsIDOMCSSStyleDeclaration.idl
./nsIEditor.idl
/home/misha/src/mozilla/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/config/nsinstall -D /usr/local/lib/firefox-devel-3.0.18/sdk/lib
if test -f ../../dist/sdk/include/xpcom-config.h; then \
	  /home/misha/src/mozilla/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/config/nsinstall -t -m 644 ../../dist/sdk/include/xpcom-config.h /usr/local/lib/firefox-devel-3.0.18; \
	fi
(cd ../../dist/sdk/lib && tar -cvhf - .) | (cd /usr/local/lib/firefox-devel-3.0.18/sdk/lib && tar -xf -)
./
./libnssutil.a
./libssl.a
./libsoftokn.a
./libmozreg_s.a
./libxul.so
./libnss.a
./libcrmf.a
tar: ./libxul.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libnss.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
./libunicharutil_external_s.a
./libembed_base_s.a
./libnspr4.so
tar: ./libcrmf.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libunicharutil_external_s.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libembed_base_s.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
./libsmime.a
tar: ./libnspr4.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
./libembed_base_standalone.a
./libmozjs.so
tar: ./libsmime.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libembed_base_standalone.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
./libxpcomglue_s.a
tar: ./libmozjs.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
./libplc4.so
./libxpcom.so
./libxpcomglue.a
tar: ./libxpcomglue_s.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libplc4.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libxpcom.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
./libplds4.so
tar: ./libxpcomglue.a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: ./libplds4.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/misha/src/mozilla/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
make: *** [install] Error 2

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

Thank you!
Misha