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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------