[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

Tue Jun 21 23:18:38 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

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.

Ljubomir