On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 10:16 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > Hi Frank, > > > Hi SL-folks, > > > > well, it's a fairly old thread, but since I partially have the same > > problem, I thought it's kind of better to revive it - hope that's ok > > ... > > I'd personally prefer Firefox 2.0.x for SL5 (or SL4) but have checked here and > there and can't really find anything relevant to that (I have checked CentOS > too but maybe I've just missed it?). > > Plugins I use in Firefox 2 (on a Windows notebook) don't work with FF 1.5 > which is why I want Firefox 2 for SL4/5. > > Michael.
Download the firefox tarball from mozilla, gunzip and untar it. You receive a directory named firefox as a reward. Firefox is a statically compiled binary named firefox within that directory. I put that directory in /usr/local/ and then use a symlink from /usr/local/firefox/firefox to launch it. That way, I don't touch the "official" firefox, so upgrades don't clobber me in any way, and my system stays nice'n'clean overall. > > > Troy Dawson wrote: > > > Troy Dawson wrote: > > >> Troy Dawson wrote: > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: > > >>>>> SL 4.x > > >>>>> > > >>>>> x86_64: > > >>>>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.i386.rpm > > >>>>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.x86_64.rpm > > >>>>> > > >>>> Hi, > > >>>> > > >>>> The above update to firefox.i386 on the x86_64 architecture has > > >>>> broken the acrobat and java plugins. > > >>>> (using acroread 7.0.9 and Sun Java 6u3) > > >>>> > > >>>> Clicking on a PDF file causes firefox to exit immediately > > >>>> and launching webpages that require a java plugin no longer works. > > >>>> > > >>>> If I revert to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.i386 everything works as > > >>>> expected. > > >>>> > > >>>> The reason we're using the i386 version on an x86_64 arch is > > >>>> to get the various plugins working that have no x86_64 equivalent. > > >>>> > > >>>> I can get around the PDF issue by not using the plugin and just > > >>>> loading the file externally in xpdf/acroread but we need > > >>>> the java plugin to work too. > > >>>> > > >>>> cheers, > > >>>> Ronnie > > >>> > > >>> Hi, > > >>> When it did the update, did it put in both the i386 and x86_64 > > >>> version? Or just the i386 version? > > >>> > > >>> Troy > > >> > > >> I'm getting more reports of this. > > >> I'm still setting things up for a test, but as I do, is anyone having > > >> problems with Adobe acroread 8? or is it only acroread 7? > > >> > > >> Troy > > > > > > OK, I can't get it to fail on me. > > > First question, for all of those who are having this problem. Have you > > > completely exited out of firefox and seamonkey? I don't just mean one > > > window, but all of firefox? > > > > > > Second question, if the above answer was yes, can you send me > > > information on how you setup your adobe plugin's? Did you do it by > > > hand? Whet directory is the plugin in? If it is a link, can you send > > > me the full output of ls -l on the plugin. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Troy > > > > > > > apparently the "java-plugin not working" problem wasn't really > > discussed !? Anyone got a solution to that one ?? Or anyone else has > > the same problem (I do) ?? > > > > I have firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.i386 installed on SL4.5 x86_64 systems. > > The javaplugin comes from java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13, and works > > otherwise: running firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.i386 (or firefox2) on the > > same machine allows to open java-applets (like eg > > > http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.5.0/demos/plugin/applets/Clock/example1.html) > without problems. javaws works as well, so the java-installation itself > seems to be ok. > > > > With firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.i386 however, it simply won't work (for me) > > . Java apparently complains about "Could not start JavaVM!" and the > > java-console never shows up. I searched quite a bit, but most people > > (quite a few) running into similar problems usually have a mixup of > > 32- and 64-bit installations (I don't). Any suggestions appreciated ! > > > > Ciao, Frank. > ------- End of Original Message -------