[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6
fred smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Jun 21 22:57:14 UTC 2011
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:46:09AM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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.
Actually, no. it's the binaries from mozilla.org, though. firefox 4
did the update itself, again using the mozilla.org binaries.
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