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Firefox 4 in Maverick

  • 21-03-2011 05:23PM
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    Has anyone got a fooproof way of installing Firefox 4 in Maverick so that it actually identifies itself and firefox and replaces the existing intalled version?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 Galen
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    http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/install-firefox-4-in-ubuntu-1004-1010.html
    1. Firefox Stable PPA provides the latest Firefox stable builds for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

    This is a Firefox stable PPA repository that will provide the latest Firefox 4.0 stable. For now the PPA doesn't have any Firefox 4 builds but will get them once Firefox 4 is out. If you add it right now, you'll get a 404 error in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10.

    Add the PPA using the commands below:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
    sudo apt-get update


    Then if you have Firefox installed, you should get an update for the latest Firefox 4 when it will be released (the package name shouldn't be named "firefox-4.0" like it is now in the Mozilla Daily PPA but simply "firefox").

    If you don't want to wait until Firefox 4 will be officially released and uploaded to this PPA, you can install Firefox 4 RC already using another PPA - see below.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,077 pickarooney
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    That sounds like just the ticket. I thought FF4 was out today for some reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 d'Oracle
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    So did I.

    Infairness, there was news all over the place about it.
    There even was today.

    I'm using the RC on Windows (in work) right now, posting through it.
    Its an improvement.

    I tried to find it on Lucid this morning but just kinda got bored and wandered off....


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,077 pickarooney
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    So FF4 is apparently ou, I ran the commands in Galen's post and have now a /usr/lib/firefox-4.0 directory, but whether I run firefox or /usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox-bin or /usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox.sh it's still version 3.6.15 that starts up.

    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 Naikon
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    Just download the bundled version from the firefox website and throw a custom launcher on yer gnome panel to point to the dynamic ELF bin. Not everything(espeically beta software) needs to go through the package database:P


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,303 Jonathan
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    For any Debian users:

    http://mozilla.debian.net/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 Galen
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    Hi Pickarooney, I haven't time to move to this repository until the weekend, but firefox 4.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~mfs~maverick1 is listed at https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,077 pickarooney
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    Naikon wrote: »
    Just download the bundled version from the firefox website and throw a custom launcher on yer gnome panel to point to the dynamic ELF bin. Not everything(espeically beta software) needs to go through the package database:P

    I know, it's just baffling how complicated Canonical make something as simple as updating a browser!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,077 pickarooney
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    Well, after a reboot, there it was... :)

    Bit odd having no status bar at the bottom, not sure if that's a bug or a feature.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 Galen
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    Status bar is still there but it autohides


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,077 pickarooney
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    yeah... not sur eif it's my theme or if it'z just ugly and barely readible by default though.
    Also, I had a hell of a time customising my toolbar in linux and windows - moving one element made the whole thing disappear several times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 d'Oracle
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    Having awful trouble getting FF4 to work in Lucid.

    Just won't start.

    Annoying me, cos it works on my XP work pc perfectly....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 Rockn
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    It wouldn't start for me when I upgraded. It just hung with no errors or anything. The solution was deleting the cookies file
    ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile/cookies.sqlite


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 Galen
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    It's working fine for me in Kubuntu maverick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 d'Oracle
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    Strange.

    I finally got it working.
    I had to run it from terminal with sudo.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 d'Oracle
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    Spoke too soon, some mentalism with places.sqlite is causing me to loose use of my forward and backward function.

    Chromium is acting up now too.
    Thats 2 weekends in a row I have had pitched battles with Ubuntu in some form.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 evercloserunion
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    yeah... not sur eif it's my theme or if it'z just ugly and barely readible by default though.
    Also, I had a hell of a time customising my toolbar in linux and windows - moving one element made the whole thing disappear several times.
    Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but if you're saying that your FF4 setup looks really ugly, it might be because it's using your old (FF3) profile. I've heard of that happening to a few people, basically old configs and themes being handled differently in FF4 or something. The common advice seems to be to wipe your old FF config stuff when you switch to FF4, it that is feasible for you.

    I might have misread your post though...


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