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