Firefox 3.0.15 breaks my email
geep
For years I use email from www.laposte.net using web browser interface.
I'm on Slack 12.2/KDE4 with the latest Slackware-provided Firefox 3.0.15.
Since the move from 3.0.14 I can't write emails, as a Flash popup appears
blocking the screen. I can't remove it. Flash blocker doesn't help.
Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/ylz92w9
Seamonkey 2.0 has the same problem.
Firefox 3.5 on Windows is fine, but I don't want to have to start Windows
just to write emails.
I see exactly the same problem moving from Firefox 3.0.14 to 3.0.15 in
Xubuntu.
But I can't reinstall 3.0.14 - as I can't find it anywhere.
Anybody know where I can find it?
Any idea why Firefox 3.5 isn't already supported on 12.2?
I'm willing to try Firefox 3.5 on Slackware 12.2 - has anybody got a
good 12.2 SlackBuild script for it?
Cheers,
Peter
barnabyh
>
> Any idea why Firefox 3.5 isn't already supported on 12.2?
>
> I'm willing to try Firefox 3.5 on Slackware 12.2 - has anybody got a
> good 12.2 SlackBuild script for it?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
Hi geep,
have you tried FF 3.5 for 13 on Slackware 12.2?
Barnaby
--
5 years using Linux - and loving it.
geep
> geep wrote:
>
>
>> Any idea why Firefox 3.5 isn't already supported on 12.2?
>>
>> I'm willing to try Firefox 3.5 on Slackware 12.2 - has anybody got a
>> good 12.2 SlackBuild script for it?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>
> Hi geep,
>
> have you tried FF 3.5 for 13 on Slackware 12.2?
>
> Barnaby
Hi, Nope. Can't! 13 is packaged txz, 12.2 uses tgz.
It's easy enough to modify the 13 Slackbuild to package as tgz, but before
I start experimenting I'd like to know if anybody else has done it.
As it's so simple to package as a tgz, I am wondering why Pat + Slackware
crew didn't already do it for us. Nasty incompatabilty lurking somwhere?
Xubuntu too. I just tried it, and it upgraded to 3.0.15 and not 3.5.5.
Cheers,
Peter
barnabyh
Ugh, yeah, didn't think of the change in format. Surely there must be a
way to convert, a la rpm2tgz. You could of course always run the package
extracted straight from mozilla. Then you can have the latest version
the day it comes out. In rpm based distros you loose some system
integration this way but not sure this would apply for Slack.
Happy tinkering-
--
5 years of Linux only - and loving it.
Martijn Dekker
geep <gee...@boursomail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:20 +0000, barnabyh wrote:
>
> > have you tried FF 3.5 for 13 on Slackware 12.2?
>
> Hi, Nope. Can't! 13 is packaged txz, 12.2 uses tgz.
> It's easy enough to modify the 13 Slackbuild to package as tgz, but before
> I start experimenting I'd like to know if anybody else has done it.
I've done it. Works like a charm.
- M.
Mikhail Zotov
geep <gee...@boursomail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:20 +0000, barnabyh wrote:
>
> > geep wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Any idea why Firefox 3.5 isn't already supported on 12.2?
> >>
> >> I'm willing to try Firefox 3.5 on Slackware 12.2 - has anybody got a
> >> good 12.2 SlackBuild script for it?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Peter
> >
> > Hi geep,
> >
> > have you tried FF 3.5 for 13 on Slackware 12.2?
> >
> > Barnaby
>
> Hi, Nope. Can't! 13 is packaged txz, 12.2 uses tgz.
> It's easy enough to modify the 13 Slackbuild to package as tgz, but before
> I start experimenting I'd like to know if anybody else has done it.
> As it's so simple to package as a tgz, I am wondering why Pat + Slackware
> crew didn't already do it for us. Nasty incompatabilty lurking somwhere?
What's the problem? Take the SlackBuild & friends from
source/xap/mozilla-firefox from Slack-13.0 or -current,
change the last symbols in the SlackBuild script from "txz"
to "tgz", then run the script. In a few minutes you will
have a package in the desired format.
As for FF-3.0.14, you can always download it from ftp.mozilla.org
and create a Slackware package using the build script for FF-3.0.15
with just a couple of trivial changes.
HTH,
Mikhail
geep
Thanks for your input guys.
The mozilla ftp resource is particularly helpful - hadn't bumped into it
whilst Googling.
Cheers,
Peter
tapp
> Hi, Nope. Can't! 13 is packaged txz, 12.2 uses tgz. It's easy enough to
> modify the 13 Slackbuild to package as tgz,
[...]
Even easier, maybe a little brute, but works perfectly: Upgrade the
related tools from 13.0, which would be:
upgradepkg slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz
upgradepkg slackware/a/tar-*.tgz
installpkg slackware/a/xz-*.tgz
upgradepkg slackware/a/findutils-*.txz
(in this order, as described in UPGRADE.TXT on 13.0)
Used those on 12.1 since 13.0 came out, no problems so far.
Regards,
Arnd