[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
office at plnet.rs
Tue Jun 21 22:46:09 UTC 2011
fred smith wrote:
> I've been running Firefox 4 on Centos 5 (had to find a libstdc++.so.6 for
> it by perusing newer systems from which I could steal one, but it's been
> fine since then).
>
> Well, today firefox pushed down an update to Firefox 4.0.1 without saying
> what it was, and it turns out to have been firefox 5. fine, I wanted it
> anyway.
>
> But when I restarted it, I got a completely black browser window. Clicked
> on the X close button and got a completely black confirmation dialog.
> weird.
>
> exited it and tried safe mode. Works fine.
>
> ldd reports no conflicts or missing libraries.
>
> anybody else seen this? anyone got suggestions on what I should try next?
>
> Thanks!
>
My guess is that you compiled from source, and that is not something
(vast majority of) CentOS users do, so I would not hold my breath that
anyone uses Firefox 4 on CentOS 5.x.
Just return to 4.0 and you should be fine, I guess.
Ljubomir
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