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@Wolf Pup:

I downloaded the latest version and tried it on Dingo. Normal browsing was okay.

But when I tried fullscreen on Youtube, it did show fullscreen and then when I tried closing the window, firefox crashed. Is there a fix for this?

BTW, Thanks for the updated packages.

That is my experience too.

Firefox has been updated from 2.0.0.14 - 2.0.0.15 - 2.0.0.16
maybe should test the latest?
Also I starting to like IceCat its basically firefox but a bit smaller and totally open-source no propriety software.
ttuuxxx

Icecat just released Icecat 3.0
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Thanks which make me wonder. Does the IceCat have flash built in or does that one have to be added which is a to newbies difficult thing?

That they froze and only way to get it out of that state
was to do ctrl+alt+ <- backspace?

Maybe I should wait until we have stable versions for linux?

I mean my brain go haywaire when I look at adobes text

I can chose among these three ways.

[quote]
Installation instructions for tar.gz

1. Click the "Download .tar.gz" link. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.
2. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.
3. Unpackage the file. A directory called install_flash_player_9_linux will be created.
4. In terminal, navigate to this directory and type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer. Click Enter. The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).
5. Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.

Installation instructions for .rpm

1. Click the "Download .rpm" link. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.
2. Save the .rpm file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.
3. In terminal, navigate to the desktop and type # rpm -Uvh <rpm_package_file>. Click Enter. (Note: This must be done as a root user). The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).
4. Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.

Installation instructions for the YUM repository definition

1. Click the “Download .rpm

nooby I'll set ya up, ok
I'll start on it right now.
ttuuxxx

Thanks

I'm back but with seamonkey I sent you a pm. Cause I deleted the ff
so I need to know which ff from this thread to start with.

Could you pm me so we don't cluter the thread with my derail?
It is late at night there in Sydney. but if all works we get it going in no time

Friday, July 18, 2008 at 10:31:24 PM EST

I tried the pet the thread starter linked to and that one play youtube
but fail on playrapport.se which worked some days ago.

the flash plug in crasches on some pages. Simply shut down firefox.

stevenbinion

PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are the missing gnome dependencies, I've also included all the symlinks that puppy didn't know where to look.

That was the needed fix. The only install that allowed me to look at
playrapport.se but as others have pointed out. The fix freezes FF
to that page and the only way to get out of it a complete reboot.

So how do we fix this?

when it freeze it doesn't help to try to stop FF in the manager either. Don't take clicks. Nothing happens. Only complete reboot works.

Puppy are in good company, none of the other small distros get
firefox doing flash for me.

Others talk about an alternativ name gnash short from "gnome flash"

Does that one work better for puppy then?

Firefox2 updated to 2.0.0.16

Hi. I've got Firefox 2.0.0.16 in my other distro (Zenwalk); can anyone tell me whether or not it's possible to copy it and its associated files over to Puppy and have it work there, thus upgrading my current, rather outdated version of Firefox (1.5.0.12)? It would save a lot of hassle with upgrading two sets of browsers, one for each distro, were this possible.

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic.

So far no one's replied. Fair enough, but does this mean it's not doable? It's not a major problem to download the pets for Firefox 2.0.0.16 or 3.01.

Colonel Panic wrote:So far no one's replied. Fair enough, but does this mean it's not doable? It's not a major problem to download the pets for Firefox 2.0.0.16 or 3.01.

Well it could work, Firefox is usually located in usr/lib/firefox
that folder would have to be copied
Also it might be using the flash from usr/lib/mozilla so that would have to be copied
and also root/.mozilla that contains your themes, sometimes flash, plugins settings, cookies etc so that would have to be copied
thats just off the top of my head, I don't have FF installed at this time on my testing pc.
You would have to delete the folders in first on puppy or move them to another out-of-the way location as for a backup, do this at your own risk of you losing you settings for firefox/seamonkey, Might want to try it first running live with puppy pfix=ram as your boot option
ttuuxxx

Thanks for the info, I might try that. I've got a backup copy of my puppy save file (pza_save.2fs), so I wouldn't need to run it from RAM.

Colonel Panic et al

this may be useful - ff favourites to opera [also back into different version ff]

http://www.howtodude.net/howto/view.article.php/256

Aitch

Thanks for the info.

# firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/crashreporter: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


result after the occasional crash...

have tried some of the fixes mentioned here, maybe they will help.

its still crashing

ttuuxxx wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:So far no one's replied. Fair enough, but does this mean it's not doable? It's not a major problem to download the pets for Firefox 2.0.0.16 or 3.01.

Well it could work, Firefox is usually located in usr/lib/firefox
that folder would have to be copied
Also it might be using the flash from usr/lib/mozilla so that would have to be copied
and also root/.mozilla that contains your themes, sometimes flash, plugins settings, cookies etc so that would have to be copied
thats just off the top of my head, I don't have FF installed at this time on my testing pc.
You would have to delete the folders in first on puppy or move them to another out-of-the way location as for a backup, do this at your own risk of you losing you settings for firefox/seamonkey, Might want to try it first running live with puppy pfix=ram as your boot option
ttuuxxx

Thanks once again, but in the event I went back to Firefox 2.0.0.3 which updated to 2.0.0.16 of its own accord, which took just over an hour on dialup.

I took your advice for Flock 1.2.4 though, and it did work

*Never mind, saw the directory listing at the bottom of the post and found firefox )*

I tried to download the link on the first page from wolfpup (http://puppylinux.ca.nyud.net/tpp/bugs/ ... -3.0.1.pet)

but the link doesn't work... I would really like to get this

B

Try the link again, took off coral cache for the link.

This PET trashed my Firefox in 3.01.

I now have two menu entries for Firefox, neither is labeled as to version and neither loads.

The desktop icon also fails to load Firefox.

I see activity that suggests Firefox is trying to load but it fails.

I am using Dillo at the moment.

Can I back out of the failed install or is there some other SIMPLE way to fix what it broke, please?

HELP, PLEASE?