On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:18:38AM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
fred smith wrote:
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.
libstdc++.so.6 is a part of gcc libraries. I would like to have Firefox 4/5, but not at the cost of messing with the core part of my system.
Just put a copy of it in a separate subdirectory. In my case, I unpacked the mozilla download of firefox in my own personal space and added the libstdcc++.so.6 to the same directory that has all the firefox-included libraries. no other app sees it there, just firefox.