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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------