Software :: Firefox Is DEAD / Killed By Microsoft?
Jun 19, 2011
I tried Firefox 4, and it really tanks. With each new version, less and less extensions will work anymore. I wonder who the people are who are making the decisions to program out all of the usability of the extensions. The only extension on my installation that I could see and use was NoScript. Gone was Video Downloads, Download Statusbar, the weather, and all the rest. Since extensions where one of the big things that always made Firefox so much better than IE, I'm guessing Satan took over the design of Firefox. I say Satan because I can't imagine any system designer being bone headed enough to do something like that, and still be an I.T. person. So there has to be something evil going on here.
Seriously, what were those people thinking? And what do you think about version 4? I'm going back to 3.5.
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Sep 7, 2011
But I don't think my peer is dead.
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Jan 8, 2010
Did an upgrade today from 9.04 to 9.10. As far as I can tell, everything is working, with the exception of Firefox 3.5.6 with new install. I've attempted an uninstall and install. Tried the following with 3.5.6:URL...I finally found that if I use sudo (or gksudo) I can run firefox at the command prompt. Any other time I run it, it just shows an icon on the lower bar and then it disappears, but within the system monitor it shows Firefox and will show as many as you run the icon with.
I've deleted the entire .mozilla directory, and manually removed all the firefox info fro /usr/bin also before a reinstall. I assume it is either a strange permission issue or some link related issue."which firefox" shows:/usr/bin/firefox and the 3.5.6 files are located /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.6 . Any help would be great, I'm at a loss at this point. I'm sure it's something simple, but it's a royal PITA.I have nxserver on the machine, if that means anything and there was a session locally as well as one remote during the upgrade (using the same account).
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Jul 11, 2011
ubuntu 10.10 Firefox 3.6.18 I have been running ubuntu 10.10 since it came out and this problem just started for me in the last couple of weeks and seems to be growing worse.
Firefox was still stalled after 2 minutes of waiting to create this Post. The way I finally got here was to hit the manual refresh. Clicking on the URL Line and hitting Enter didn't help. I have noticed this happens on a few other sites, as well, but for the rest of them, Firefox seems fast. Chromium jumps onto the UbuntuForum bang fast.
I applied the fix I found at [URL]..It didn't appear to help. However just now, when I clicked the bookmark of that URL to get the URL to paste here, it loaded darn fast, whereas last time I waited 3 to 4 minutes for it. Does anyone know what is happening and how to fix this for all sites, especially UbuntuForum?
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Dec 27, 2009
I had screenlets working Just Fine on F 10, but it hit EOL so I used preupgrade to move to F 11. Now, I can't get them working no matter what I do. If I try to run screenlets-manager from a terminal I get this message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/screenlets-manager/screenlets-manager.py", line 28, in <module>
import screenlets
ImportError: No module named screenlets
And, I can't reinstall them because they require python-dateutil which doesn't seem to have a version for F 11. I even tried downloading the tarball and running setup.py, but it crashed because it tries to import a module that doesn't exist.
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Feb 25, 2010
Earlier today I was simply on my laptop watching videos, I finish, shut my PC down. I reboot hours later only to get greeted by the Fedora Boot Splash Screen and shortly after nothing but blackness, no login screen or nothing, I see the mouse cursor shortly after the boot splash for 2 seconds then it disappears. I made no recent changes to any files besides applying some updates via the package manager, I had to recently reformat due to a self-blunder and lost crucial data, now a week has passed and I've managed to "rebuild" my data loss back up. Now this is hindering my college course work which is done online.
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Jun 10, 2011
I have F15 64 on my laptop, it's been running relatively well, today I decided to do a yum update. There were about 20 updates, nothing major from what I saw, NetworkManger stuff etc. Everything goes well, until the end when I get some error (no I don't recall what it was, yes I should've written it down, and no I don't need a lecture about this) so I manually reboot the computer. And I boot to a black screen, Oh what joy of using Fedora. I edit grub to try and get in with runlevel 3, but encounter an error "Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init" then a few lines down it's "panic occured, switching back to text console /sbin/init:error while loading shared libraries /lib64.libgcc_s.so.1: invalid ELF header"
I'm very frustrated, this comes right on the heels of pre upgrade forcing me to do a complete fresh install of F15. I'm honestly one error away from moving to another distro (Fedora is my first)
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Aug 4, 2011
I had F15 installed in my hard drive, I liked it very much and everything was going great until I installed that damned XP in another partition (same HDD). Now here is the problem.
This XP does not let me choose the OS I wish to run at the boot-time and just boots itself. I am a beginner with Linux OS.
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Feb 3, 2010
I wanted to change the look of my login screen, so I installed gdm-2.20 thru the terminal (apt-get install) and then it asked me what I wanted the default set as and gave me 2 choices:
gdm
gdm-2.20
I picked the latter. Then I restarted the compy and... text. It keeps telling me that the X server is... not configured correctly and that I need to restart GDM when it is. So, I need to know if there is any way of rewriting the xorg.conf to work with my poc (piece of crap) video card. I have a backup of the default xorg.conf for use with NO video card... but then I wouldn't be able to use my video card...
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Aug 9, 2010
I've been a Windows users since waaaay back when (ahh...Windows for Workgroups 3.1). I've tried Linux in the past (Mandrake many years ago), but didn't feel it was quite ready to be a Windows substitute for me.A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu (10.04) and installed it in a dual boot setup with Windows XPSP3. All seemed to be running well, until it came time to install updates in the Update Manager. First an update for GRUB, which promptly killed GRUB and left me with "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported" message and a GRUB prompt. After booting up the Windows XP install CD, I was able to rewrite the MBR and get back into Windows.
I deleted the Ubuntu installation and reinstalled it, making sure I didn't allow it to update GRUB after finishing up. The other updates listed installed fine and I was able to dual boot with ease.Another round of updates were listed yesterday when I booted up in Ubuntu, I made sure not to include the GRUB update, downloaded and installed them, rebooted and was faced with "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported" again. Argh. Once again I had to pull out the Windows CD and run FIXMBR to resolve the boot problem.I'll admit to being tempted to just go back to Windows completely (while not perfect, atleast I can get it to boot after updates 99.9% of the time) and forget the idea of running Linux if I'm going to be faced with having to reinstall the OS everytime because something killed the boot loader.
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Oct 19, 2010
In Ubuntu 10.10 on a REALLY old laptop, everything works fine - except the system occasionally gets a lag spike, where the CPU is suddenly being throttled. This wouldn't be a problem, except my mother's using the laptop to play backing music for her choir and the CPU spikes are causing the music to stutter. After much searching and eventually resorting to TOP, I found that the CPU was being throttled every 10-20 seconds or so by a process called, "kslowd001". "sudo kill -9 `pidof kslowd001`" did nothing, nor did, "sudo killall -9 kslowd001". It doesn't want to die, it just wants to throttle the CPU, and I just want it to stop. What does this process actually do? Why can't I kill it? How do I switch it off, or otherwise stop it from throttling the CPU every couple of seconds so that we can actually listen to music or watch videos from the laptop?
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Jan 20, 2011
How do I prevent ubuntu from killing my server daemons on user logout. I have the user irc which I run Unrealircd on but unfortunately I have to be logged into that user in terminal to keep it running, the moment i exit it loses connection in xchat.
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Jul 19, 2011
I recently updated my Nvidia driver and since don't have a gui. When my pc loads it just gives me a list of the start up commands.
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Aug 17, 2011
I am was running Natty 64 bit on my computer when I though I would download kubuntu desktop so I would have it as an option when logging in. I restarted, played around with KDE then restarted again, choosing "ubuntu" as the desktop manager. Then unbuntu told me I did not have the graphics power (or something like that) to run unity and booted me into gnome 2.xx. Now I cannot boot into unity. Every time I restart it boots me into gnome. How can I fix this?
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Jan 22, 2010
I am using fedora 9. I have installed cell SDK 3.0. when i run any program on that simulator i get 'killed by signal 7' error.
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Jul 31, 2009
I've always wondered whether my process kills when I am in the process of doing something during my ssh session. For instance, I ssh from my local box to dev-formbox and did an scp transfer to another remote host. All of the sudden, I lost ssh connectivity on my local box due to network issue. Will the scp process (or any of my process that I am currently doing) kill also once I loose the ssh session?
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Feb 15, 2011
when i try to run a program in linux it runs and prints some messages successfully but in the middle it shows the message 'Killed' and stops running. what may be the reasons for this..?
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May 2, 2010
At least, that is what I think happened.I was interested in trying out tilda, which needs the confuse libary, both of which are slackbuilds on slackbuilds.orgI built and installed confuse, and then went to build tilda but got some error I could not follow up on.However after this, nothing as a normal user would work!For some reason my libary directories, /lib64, /usr/lib64 and other key directories such as /usr/share and /usr/bin were set to have permissions 700It took me a while to figure out what was causing the problem.Can anyone confirm that the confuse slackbuild resets your permissions like this? Otherwise, what could have caused it?Can someone please give me the correct permissions for those direcories? Is it safe to just do chmod -R 755 /usr and /lib64?
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Mar 24, 2010
I am experiencing the "slow internet" problem (mentioned multiple times in these forums) but it started exactly when I ran an online update, which switched my boot image from vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.1 to vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2. Perhaps a setting somewhere got overridden? When the update occurred, grub couldn't find the OS because it had the wrong version #, and I manually edited it (via a livedisk) and that fixed it; it also switched my vga resolution in the grub conf. OpenSUSE is *acting* like ipv6 is enabled again, but ifconfig doesn't report that, and my MTU is close to 1500.
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Jan 8, 2010
I have an HP mini 110. In order to get my wireless working I had to use a fix with broadcom, sadly I don't know exactly what I did to finally get it working. My problem is that in fixing my wireless, my mic died. I'm not the most advanced with Linux so I have no idea as to why this may have happened. I have seen that this is a reoccurring problem that continues to not be addressed.
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Feb 11, 2010
I have an ancient laptop, an IBM T-20 with a Pentium 3 and 250 megs of RAM, which works great for blogging and email. I have used Ubuntu on it for nearly four years now. Last night I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 and now it won't get to the log-in screen. The BIOS splash screen appears, then the GRUB screen, then the Ubuntu trademark screen appears, with the horizontal progress indicator scrolling from left to right. And when it gets all the way to the right, the screen goes blank. Then the screen flashes twice, as if it's trying to display in a resolution it doesn't support, and then it goes blank again. The HD activity light flashes about every five seconds and the keyboard is unresponsive.
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Feb 12, 2010
I've just resolved a Grub problem after reinstalling XP.
See this thread: [url]
I've installed Jaunty and then Karmic in recent weeks (clean installs) after having a Jaunty WUBI install.
After the Jaunty install the sound in XP started behaving poorly,but came right after some reboots.
After the Karmic install I got no sound in XP.So I reinstalled XP and sound was ok,but I had a Grub problem and reinstalled Grub2.
This killed the sound in the newly installed XP.
I know this doesn't make much sense -Installing Grub shouldn't have anything to do with XP's sound.
The motherboard is a ASUS P5K SE with Realtek ALC883 Audio built in,but I'm using a Creative CA0106 Audigy as the sound card.
I've checked that the selected sound card in XP is still the Audigy and I've checked the driver.
This is the output of aplay -l in Ubuntu:
Code:
It isn't a big deal though.99% of my usage is in Ubuntu.I only use XP for a couple of apps.
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Apr 2, 2010
Long story short my roommate has been using KDE 4.4.2 for a few weeks and enjoying it, so I figured I would give it a shot when I saw this on the Kubuntu front page. I added ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports to my software sources and asked kpackage kit to look for updates, it found a bunch, plus around 25 blocked updates. I figured they were blocked because they depended on some other update I was about to install. I told it to start updates and left it on its own for a while. About halfway through KDE crash handler popped up saying the network manager crashed, so I told it to restart, plugged into my wired connection, and continued updates. Once it finished, their were still 25 blocked updates to I figured a restart was in order. Once I restart I get to the log in screen, log in, and then I am prompted with this message by the KDE Crash Handler:
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Jul 20, 2010
A quick note for other frustrated Ubuntu users out there. I have a D-Link DWA-510 PCI wireless card (RT61) that just stopped working. After wasting hours searching posts and asking for help, I've determined that there's a problem in the latest Kernel to be rolled out.
I have now installed StartUp-Manager, and used it to boot into the old 2.6.31-22 kernel still on the machine and, hey presto, wireless is working again. It seems like the simplest fix by far.
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Jul 24, 2010
A kernel update just killed my ATI graphics driver.
Trying to install proprietary graphics driver fails and points at /var/log/jockey.log
This ends with
Code:
If I can't sort this out I'll have to try rebooting into the old kernel to get the graphics driver back. The dreadfully slow scrolling in the browser is starting.
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May 3, 2011
I created a 2nd login that I set up with Gnome instead of Unity. Unity has a few things that drive me nuts like no notification area among other things. I want to still be able to access Unity to try to get used to it, but will probably use gnome mainly.Anyway, I like using the compiz desktop cube effect (also something I could not do in Unity). When I activated it, all my title bars (the top bar in most all windows) vanished. I have seen this before, but the normal fixes aren't working.
This is one thing that still bugs me about Linux/Ubuntu. A couple clicks and you just hose your desktop/ computer. It is not that easy to screw up a windows machine. It isn't even as if I clicked on something wrong.Is there a something about 11.04 that causes a bigger problem with compiz?
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May 7, 2011
Machine specifics: Win Vista with Ubuntu 10.04 installed via Wubi. Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 - killed Grub. Following other posts, I booted off a 10.04 Live CD and ran boot_info_script. The results are below. It's telling me core.img cannot be found - can someone please tell me what to do next (before I blunder on and make things worse!)
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May 22, 2011
Fooling around with trying to edit splash themes, and in trying to apply one, I broke the startup splash. The shutdown splash still works. I know that update-initramfs -u is supposed to fix this, but it hasn't. I run dpkg-reconfigure plymouth, and it gives me the list of themes; I can pick one, and it seems to do its thing; I run update-initramfs -u, and that looks like it worked too; but then I reboot, and the shutdown splash is unchanged, and the startup splash is just a black screen until GDM loads. It's as if I hadn't changed anything.
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May 30, 2011
i tried to get some glx support to my X11/xfce4 so i read some threads and i just wanted to try out nvidia-settings to check out how far i've come. it told me to run nvidia-xconfig (which i did) afterwards X refused to start at all, so i copied back the old xorg.conf.i know that X has changed a year ago or so and xorg.conf isnt really of any use (so that file is "like" empty, just three lines or so).whatever, now i cannot login to my old xfce4 environment, i get the loginbox and type in password, after 2 secs i get a black screen with some errors (blinks away after half a sec) a black screen with a cursor and then get back to the login screen.
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Jun 18, 2011
I have a Dell Inspiron 700m. I've been running Ubuntu since 2008. Every time I re-install the O.S. I have to alter the video driver. When 10.04 was released it crashed the system and I couldn't figure out how to fix it so I left Karmic on and all was well. Well the DVD/CD drive never worked right under Karmic but no big deal.
Anyway, last week I attempted an upgrade. Everything went fine until upgrade finished and it was time to reboot.
Reboot hung, so I ended up killing the power and doing a cold boot.
Now when booting from the hard drive, I get a brief flash of the Ubuntu welcome screen (in the wrong resolution) and then things die. I'm left looking at a grey curser in the upper left.
Worse yet, I can't boot from a live CD or USB. Neither, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Puppy Linux will boot from CD or from USB.
I double checked my boot order in the BIOS and still nothing boots. I reset the BIOS to factory Default, still nothing boots. I disabled the hard-drive in the boot up order in the bios and still nothing boots.
I can't figure out what happened and I can't access the machine at all exepet to enter the BIOS.
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