[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

Tue Jun 21 22:46:09 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

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