miemens Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Okay I've installed firefox by unzipping the tar to /usr/share/firefox as root. I made an icon on my desktop for it and at first it worked but I went to install the Nvidia drivers (which didnt work....I just installed 10 OE ....I never had any problems before) and when I restarted X it decided to die for some reason. It will run fine as root from the console but if I try to run it as a normal user I get this error- $ /usr/share/firefox/firefox INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory I should probably mention that right before I tried installing the Nvidia drivers I had installed the java plug-in and it worked fine. Is this a problem with permissions or something that the plug-in did? I have no idea. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 I can tell you without a doubt that the problem is in the Java plugin, as to fixing it, if I recall correctly the problem is the wrong version of Java is installed; but it's been a while since I went through this. Do check out Mozilla's faq's and help sites, I believe that is where I found the fix. Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miemens Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 I've read all the stuff at the mozilla site but still can't seem to get this working right. The version of java I installed was j2re1.4.2_04. After I ln -s the plug-ins I can restart the browser and it runs fine and java works perfect. However after a logout I can't even get firefox to launch. I've never had this before... should I try an older version of java or maybe go back to firefox 0.7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miemens Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Also I got the java rpm from here http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 I should expect that you have the correct java, and clearly it is linked correctly since you said it does work. If I understood, it works if you re-link it up and will continue to work until you log out. Do you have the user agent plug in installed? And if yes, do you set it to show your browser as being Internet Exploiter? I seem to remember that it does not like to start up when it is in Internet Exploiter mode... Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Why not install firefox through the RPM? urpmi mozilla-firefox It should be on your disks, if not; add a contrib source through easy urpmi and run the command above. Also, I thought that the executable for firefox was actually mozilla-firefox, not just firefox... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalrnc Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 The executable is just firefox if you use the tarball... which works fine for me. I just tried out 0.9rc by the way. Maybe off topic, lots of people have complained about the new theme, I personally think it's ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 (edited) You have installed the user agent switcher havent you? There are 2 lines in ~/.phoenix/{useraccount}/prefs.js that will need to be changed Those lines are: user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"); user_pref("useragentswitcher.1.description", "Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)"); user_pref("useragentswitcher.1.useragent", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"); Find them and make sure it is not "Mozilla/4.*" Change it to 5.0. Edited June 10, 2004 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miemens Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Iphitus , you were right on the money. That was the problem. Thanks for the help, I was really starting to get frustrated. If it wasn't for this board I would probably give up linux and go buy a mac lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Iphitus , you were right on the money. That was the problem. Thanks for the help, I was really starting to get frustrated. If it wasn't for this board I would probably give up linux and go buy a mac lol. Not a problem, the same thing puzzled me for a while too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 and why did this need to be done? I've never heard of it. What causes its need? :unsure: :woops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 (edited) and why did this need to be done? I've never heard of it. What causes its need? :unsure: :woops: There is a bug in the User Agent Switcher, where one of the Agents is set to IE6, Win XP(Mozilla 4.8 Compatible.) Firefox for some unknown reason *really* dislikes this and will not startup until the user agent string is Mozilla 5.0 or higher. Those lines in the config file I gave him to change, changed all references of 4.8 to 5 so that firefox would be happy again. This does not affect the identification on a site and it still will successfully identify as Internet Explorer. The reason it worked for root is that root either did not have the plugin installed or had not changed the ID. Edited June 11, 2004 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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