[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [ale] Iceweasel & flash]]

nic white hhhhhddddzzz at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 02:10:21 EDT 2007


On 9/19/07, Andy Whitten <pilarlosada at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:21, you wrote:
>
>  ok, so I got Firefox installed, but my plugins were.... defunct. They
> wouldn't do anything, and I couldn't delete/uninstall/save preferences.
> I had to stop firefox, rename /home/MY_LOGIN/.mozilla to something else,
> restart mozilla and start over. Of course I had saved my bookmarks and
> just imported them back. At least now forecastfox and coolIris work!!!!!!
> I don't understand why the plugins stopped working. In my previous
> openSUSE 10.2 install I had firefox 2.0 working fine.  Since my /home is
> separate from "/" I was able to reload and still have my browser setup
> intact. but iceweasel must have foogled it.. whatever.
> thanks for the link, this is great! I'm still hald tempted to reload with
> the new Ubuntu DELL branded 7.04 CD, but I know my wife is tired of me
> fooling with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> later,
>
>
>  Do you the  Deb Multimedia Repository installed?  You may be able to
> find the
>
> libstdc++5  in there.
>
>  I got it all worked out. What I had to do was remove the .mozila folder (
> rename, to keep it) then restarted firefox. Now my plugins were all gone.
> Then I was able to install them and they worked. So now I have real firefox
> 2.0.0.6 and forecastfox works.
>
> It's the little things:)
>
>
>    I am delighted it worked out for you.  I  know the whole saga of why
> Iceweasle is there, but I am not Richard S. I like Firefox.  By the way, I
> got an update today to Firefox 2.0.0.7 on my wife's Mac, but I haven't
> heard a  peep from my Debian box about the upgrade. Have you been prompted
> to upgrade to the latest and greatest Firefox?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>



i hear the deb repos are a bit slow on upgrading ff, andy
it should be there within a week though
myself, i'm using 1.5 still on my machine(fc 6)... so lazy hehehe...
-nic

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