[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

Wed Jun 22 00:40:10 UTC 2011
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

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.

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