Re: More firefox problems :(
From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/05/04
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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:40:32 +0200
Paul J Gans wrote:
> David Wright <david_c_wright@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>Installed it yesterday on a new machine... Just booting to check where it
>>put it... Hang on a second or 3... ;-) ...OK, other machine has now
>>booted, it is in /opt/MozillaFirefox/.
>
>>I did find that, although I ran it from root the first time, under the
>>local user, it still wouldn't work. In the end I loaded a shell and did
>>xhost +localhost and then ran it again, but it still came up with a GTK
>>error.
>
>>Out of pure bloody-mindedness, I just kept running firefox, after the 3rd
>>or 4th failure, it came up with the "import bookmarks" dialog! Hey presto,
>>after that it just worked...
>
>>Mozilla really need to look into these issues about the installation, I've
>>been using Firefox for about 2 years, but somebody who just want to try it
>>out is going to be very upset with the installation process and will
>>probably give up :-(
>
> I've been following this thread with some interest. I've not
> had ANY problems at all.
>
> What I've done is to install from the binaries at
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
>
> I downloaded the linux binary. I keep Mozilla, Firefox,
> and friends in /usr/local. I think this is what I did:
> (It was a few weeks ago and I'm no longer sure.) I unpacked
> the tarball in /usr/local. That created a "firefox" directory
> containing, among other things, the firefox binary, and icons
> directory, a plugins directory, and similar stuff.
Me too, I've used the tarball before on other machines and had the same
problems that have been mentioned in this thread, on Monday I tried to use
the SuSE RPM, and that had pretty much the same issues :-(
> Since I was logged in as root to do this, I then created a
> desktop icon by left clicking on the desktop. When the menu
> opens I clicked on "create new" and then on "file" and
> "link to application". It is then just a matter of filling
> in the form -- which includes saying where the binary is.
>
> The only "tricky" part is selecting an icon. To do this
> click on the gear wheel graphic. When the menu comes up
> click on "other icons" and then "browse". Then I navigated
> to /usr/local/firefox/icons and clicked on the big icon.
>
> That was it. The firefox icon then appeared on my desktop.
> Still being root I clicked on it, it did its thing, and all
> was well and good.
Done that, and as root, it worked...
> Then I logged in as a user and repeated the icon creation
> routine, which is far faster to do than to write about.
Yep, repeated the procedure for a user, click on the icon, busy pointer for
~20 seconds, then returns to a normal cursor, no Firefox...
I then opened a shell and ran it, which is when I got the GTK error. Doing
the xhost bit and running Firefox a couple more times eventually got it
working...
> Firefox worked like a champ and has been working fine ever
> since.
Same here, once the initial problem with the GTK error is sorted out, it is
the best browser I've used.
> I've done the same thing (with some modifications) for Mozilla
> and Thunderbird.
>
> What this does is make me independent of rpms. I can download
> new versions from the mozilla site as they come up with no
> problems. I've done this for several versions now.
>
> ---- Paul J. Gans
Me too, but as I've had the problems with 0.9.x of Firebird loading from
TAR, I tried the RPM this time, for me unfortunately neither way has been
error free...
Dave
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