On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:23:46AM -0400, Wade Hampton wrote:

Anyone have any luck running updated Firefox on CentOS 5? We have CentOS 5 workstations and need to update their Firefox but it dumps core even when using the libstdc++ from Fedora 9.

I would like anything stable and secure beyond Firefox 3 but can't find tarballs for anything other than 7.0.1.

I'm running Firefox-7 on Centos 5.7.

Back on (I think it was) Firefox 5, I found that firefox had dependencies on libstdc++ that weren't met by the lib on centos.

I went digging around on my system and found that some other programs had their own local copies of libstdc++, so I tried copying them, once at a time, into the same directory where mozilla itself keeps some libraries. After a little cut-n-try I found one that worked.

I've not changed it since, it still works.

Not sure how to discover the version # of the libstdc++.so.6 I am using, but dong some 'finding' on my system I see that there is a copy of libstdc++.so.6 in two different places that are the same size as the one Firefox is ucing. they are 970680 bytes, and the filename is "libstdc++.so.6.0.9", FWIW.

I also note that Centos-6 works with Firefox-7 without having to do what I described above. Simplest for you MAY be to excerpt the libstdc++.so.6.* from centos-6 rather than groping for one, as I did.

Good luck!