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Hello, I have just upgraded to Firefox 24 on my Salix 13.0.
However, the application won't start properly. The ouput from terminal is as follows: Any clues how to solve that?
Thanks in advance for support.
Antonio

Oops, that was my fault. I upgraded firefox by accident in 13.0 as well, while I shouldn't have. It needs a version of gtk newer than the one in 13.0, so it will never work there. I have reverted the upgrade in the repos. So, the solution is to go back to version 17 (and unfortunately stay with that for ever).

Hello Gapan,
Just rolled back to 17. All working fine, as usual with Salix.
Regards
Antonio

gapan wrote:Oops, that was my fault. I upgraded firefox by accident in 13.0 as well, while I shouldn't have. It needs a version of gtk newer than the one in 13.0, so it will never work there. I have reverted the upgrade in the repos. So, the solution is to go back to version 17 (and unfortunately stay with that for ever).

Does this also apply to 13.37 (lxde)? I'm getting an update pending notice. Can I exclude mozilla-firefox-24.* without excluding firefox-17?

sojurn wrote:

gapan wrote:Oops, that was my fault. I upgraded firefox by accident in 13.0 as well, while I shouldn't have. It needs a version of gtk newer than the one in 13.0, so it will never work there. I have reverted the upgrade in the repos. So, the solution is to go back to version 17 (and unfortunately stay with that for ever).

Does this also apply to 13.37 (lxde)? I'm getting an update pending notice. Can I exclude mozilla-firefox-24.* without excluding firefox-17?

I am running Salix 13.0 on a laptop, whereas the desktop is running 13.37 xfce. For the latter upgrade was carried out with no issues. Of course you can exclude upgrade to 24 just by editing Gslapt preferences. However, if the upgraded package is made available via repos it it generally a good move to switch to a newer version (for instance, Firefox 24 is supporting webrtc for video calls without plug ins, whereas firefox 17 just can't).

Regards,
Antonio

I don't think this problem applies to 13.37. Regarding excludes: if you exclude a package, it just means it won't be upgraded. Whatever you have already will remain even if an upgrade is available, unless requested specifically. You don't exclude a version, you exclude a package.

Yes, the upgrade is safe for 13.37.

I'm using salix 13.37 Mate, and as laplume, firefox asked for be updated to 24 through gslapt. All was well, but now FlashPlayer does not run. I've checked flash-plugin and is at actual version 11.2.202.327-x86_64-1gv, and libflashplayer.so is at its right folder /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/, also confirmed by Midori, which runs flash player smoothly.

I prefer to use firefox instead of Midori. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

There is another firefox upgrade that fixes this. The one with the -2gv suffix.

gapan wrote:There is another firefox upgrade that fixes this. The one with the -2gv suffix.

Hello!
In x86_64 repos this upgrade is missing (I'm using Salix 14.0). No plugins is executed in -1gv.
I rolled back to v17, but my browser now is in english.