Firefox 3.5 and updates
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Firefox 3.5 and updates
I just wonder why my Linux Mint 7 still has Firefox 3.5.1, while my Ubuntu 9.04 machine updated Fx 3.5 to 3.5.2 days ago. I thought Mint had the same repos as Ubuntu and added som extra repos as well.
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Re: Firefox 3.5 and updates
We maintain our own Firefox packages
We have tried to fix the full screen flash problem - that's why it's delayed
It seems that may not be possible to include in the package but we're looking at it
We have tried to fix the full screen flash problem - that's why it's delayed
It seems that may not be possible to include in the package but we're looking at it
Re: Firefox 3.5 and updates
Many are not using the Firefox 3.5 packages because of the regression with full screen flash. Firefox 3.5 is not even the default for Ubuntu 9.10 yet because of this.
Re: Firefox 3.5 and updates
How to fix the full screen Flash issue, in case anyone didn't see this already. I got this from another member here on the forums.
Use the following command, with your version of fire fox. Ie: Change 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 etc.
Somewhere after the "#!/bin/sh" line and before any other non-comment line, add the line
Use the following command, with your version of fire fox. Ie: Change 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 etc.
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sudo gedit /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.1/firefox.sh
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export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
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Re: Firefox 3.5 and updates
Thank you for the replies.
@Lantesh: Thanks for the tip, but I guess "apt-get" isn't part of the code?
@Lantesh: Thanks for the tip, but I guess "apt-get" isn't part of the code?
Re: Firefox 3.5 and updates
Oops. I must have had a brain fart. It's corrected now.Rattle wrote:Thank you for the replies.
@Lantesh: Thanks for the tip, but I guess "apt-get" isn't part of the code?
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We are well aware of the tip from Lantesh, however it does not work in 64 bit
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Husse, also this fix I posted only works as long as you don't update to a new version. Ie: If you upgrade from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 then you have to apply the fix again. It's definitely not a permanent solution.Husse wrote:We are well aware of the tip from Lantesh, however it does not work in 64 bit
Re: Firefox 3.5 and updates
Well as you can see in twitter/identica we've released 3.5.2 and in the blog this workaround is described and also why we did not include it (64 bits)