Hi, After going to the PLUG clinic yesterday, I now have ubuntu 8.04 server on my machine. I did sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop from the command line, and now I can surf the net using Firefox 3.0.19 I am so happy that things went smoothly, as far as the apt-get command goes. I really am. I had many frustrations in the past, that I couldn't figure out, and kind of gave up on linux. Now, I'm giving it the old college try again.
Well....in Firefox 3.0.19, I went to the menu and clicked on Edit, then Preferences. When the Firefox Preferences window came up, I clicked on Advanced. Then I clicked on the tab Update tab. Under Update tab it says Automatically check for updates to: Firefox Installed Add-ons Search Engines The above three items are check boxes and they were all initially checked. I unchecked them all. Then I tried to check them all again. I am able to check "Installed Add-ons", and I am able to check "Search Engines". I am not able to check "Firefox". My mouse click is not being registered. Under Update tab it also says: When updates to Firefox are found: Ask me what I want to do Automatically download and install the update The above two items are radio buttons. Initially the "Automatically download and install the update" button was selected. I then selected the "Ask me what I want to do" button. Now, I can't switch back to the "Automatically download and install the update button" I know this is in Firefox, but this is Firefox, on a newly installed Linux operating system. I did not have this kind of problem with Firefox on Windows. So I conclude that this is a Linux problem, i.e. a Firefox on Linux problem, and I don't know what to do to get the check boxes and radio buttons to work again. Please help. Also, I want to be able to watch you tube videos in Firefox. I am told You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. I click on "Download it from Adobe" and I go to the link http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ where I can download a .deb for Ubuntu 8.04+ or .tar.gz for linux among other things. I been through this sort of thing before, and have not been successful. I don't know if I hit the button that says Agree and Install now with the .deb for Ubuntu 8.04+ selected that I will actually get my firefox browser updated properly, so that it can play youtube videos. I don't know if I'm merely suppose to go to Help Check for Updates in Firefox, and that will make Firefox run youtube videos properly. I don't know if I'm suppose to go to the command line, and do some sort of apt get on updating adobe flash player for firefox. So....could someone please help me to get my checkboxes, radio buttons, and adobe flash player to work in Firefox, which is on my new linux box. Like I said, I did not encounter these issues with Firefox on Windows. I just can't figure out what to do with Firefox on Linux. Sincerely, Victor Soich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug