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:
> > >>> [log in to unmask] 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.
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