Firefox 3.6, wont start... ...

[techno-mole]

hello.

I have just upgraded firefox to 3.6 (namoroka) and found that it wont start, and running it in a terminal gives this error -

(firefox-bin:10639): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

I have found a fix for it, but you have to do it every time you want to run it, delete the .mozilla folder in your home directory (press ctrl + h to see it as its hidden) but be warned doing this will delete your bookmarks etc, so maybe it would be better to rename it, that way when it gets sorted out you should be able to copy the .mozilla contents into the new one that gets created when you run firefox.

of course you could also just not update for a while

cheers

[andreasdelpaso]

Help,i'm a new ubuntu user and i just upgraded from firefox 3.5.7 to 3.6 namoroka.
It started up once,then crashed and wont start again.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

[kansasnoob]

Ubuntuzilla updated me to FF 3.6 today with no problems:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Main_Page

[andreasdelpaso]

Ubuntuzilla updated me to FF 3.6 today with no problems:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Main_Page

Thank you for the reply but once i write in terminal :
deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...la/mozilla/apt all main

i get :
No command 'deb' found, did you mean:
Command 'debc' from package 'devscripts' (main)
Command 'derb' from package 'libicu-dev' (main)
Command 'dab' from package 'bsdgames' (universe)
Command 'debi' from package 'devscripts' (main)
deb: command not found

[andreasdelpaso]

Out of desperation i used update manager,got some updates that i probably unistalled from synaptic (like firefox 3.5 i think) and Namoroka is up and running,in fact it restored my previous session.
Sorry for the false alarm...

[kansasnoob]

First of all do not remove the official Ubuntu Firefox package(s)!

Next determine if this is 32 bit or 64 bit by running:

uname -m

64 bit users would see x86_64, 32 bit users would see i686.

For 32 bit in 9.04 and later only run:

echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

For 32 bit in 8.10 and earlier only run

echo -e "\ndeb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

All 64 bit users only look here:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...ge#64bit_users

Note: read here about Localizations:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...#Localizations

[mkvnmtr]

I updated to 3.6.1 pre from Ubuntuzilla this morning. I had to restart the browser three times but now it is up and running fine. It seems to be using much less memory and cpu. We will have to use it a while but I think it will be much better.

[techno-mole]

well firefox 3.6 is working for me, sort of.

I cant launch it using any icons, either from gnomes applications menu or icons on awn, same goes when I tried it with cairo dock or any other icon.

it will however run using terminal (not ideal) and heres where it gets odd, I have a keyboard that has various short cut keys on it, eg - a key for the up and down volume and start and pause etc etc if I use the short cut key for the browser it works ? so at the moment im just using the key until I can figure out why it wont launch from an icon

cheers

[JSeymour]

I've about had it with FF brain-deadness. Their latest update (3.5.7, I think it is) has been wreaking havoc on the 'doze desktops here at work. You see: Unlike most other places (apparently): We don't let our end-users commonly run with Admin rights. Well, it seems the FF updater is too st00pid to realize that, attempts an update, anyway, which it cannot complete, and trashes things to the point where an Admin has to login to the system, uninstall Firefox, and re-install from scratch.

So, as time allows (HA!) at work: I plan to look into Opera and Chrome for my 'doze users. I'll be doing the same for my wife and I at home. (I use Ubuntu, exclusively, on my desktop.)

If I can dump FF, it'll be history.

I wish somebody would take the Gecko rendering engine, which is, by all accounts, pretty decent, and build a browser around it that wasn't a bloated, unstable, exploit-riddled POS, really I do.

Jim

[muteXe]

Least you get to chose your browser. At my work we have to use IE :/