Firefox 3 on Celena (Mint 3.1)

[sayshh]

Hello,

I'm trying to find out if Firefox 3 can be installed on Mint 3.1. Here is what I tried:

I tried downloading and installing it using Mintinstall (download for Elyssa). The installation seemed to go absolutely fine. However, when I launch Firefox, it brings up FF 2.0.0.6 instead of FF 3.

When I try to search for files modified today, I do find a folder called firefox in /usr/lib, but opening the firefox link through that also brings up the older version. I would really like to have FF 3, and that is the reason I didn't upgrade FF from FF 2.0.0.6 to 2.0.0.13.

Another thing I noticed is that the font rendering has changed in the older version of FF after the installation of FF3. I really used to like the fonts earlier, as they were better than any other Linux distro. Anyway, I can restore the fonts the way there were before? I'm even prepared to uninstall FF3 if it will help.

Can anybody give more information on this?

Cheers!

[sayshh]

Looks like more problems. I'm not able to use Nautilus. The window randomly closes when I double-click on folders, and then reopens with my Home folder.

Please help.

[sayshh]

I think its all sorted now...

Thanks!

[ric.dintino]

I have the same problem with Nautilus. How did you fix it?

[sayshh]

Hi Ric,

I don't remember the exact sequence, but I remember trying to uninstall and install Nautilus, which caused a lot of other components to be uninstalled (gnome-session and others)...

Then I had to install gnome-session, again.. it was a lot of trial and error, so I don't remember exactly what I did. It was a frantic effort to save my installation.. hope you can understand. Since it was taking time to fix, now I've installed Wolvix just to keep using my computer in the meantime.