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