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Topic: FireFox Problems, The upgrade to Firebird....

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PhrozenFear Offline

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Posted: Mar. 06 2004,18:01

DSL 0.6.0 included Firebird and the Flash plugin, which was great. However, with 0.6.1 (which includes the new FireFox) flash doesn't work (I've also tried it on Winblows and Fedora and RedHat 8). Also, for some wierd reason I don't seem to be able to get the FireFox package so it can install and run - I get a tar error and it goes to the flash plugin to install where there's nothing.

Any suggestions ?

>>PhrozenFear

John

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Posted: Mar. 06 2004,20:32

Hi,
Probably what is happening is that you have an incomplete download of Firefox. Try deleting the files and running the script again.

PhrozenFear Offline

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Posted: Mar. 07 2004,04:38

No, it's not that. On DSL, it gives me a "Cannot connect to host" and it doesn't work. And on the other OS's, it doesn't recognize the plugin.

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Posted: Mar. 07 2004,04:56

I have DSL 0.6.1, and right now I am running FireFox, which is a special build for 586 machines, (The one Mozilla has is for 686), and is obtained through the menu, connecting to the DSL server for that special 586 build.
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The script in the menu goes here:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/firefox-i586-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
if it cannot get it from ibiblio.org. Don't click on the link to install, use the
menu item to do that.
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Here is what I get in FireFox, when I enter about:plugins in the url line:
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Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 6.0 r79

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
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As you can see, they are installed and enabled. So, it does work, but not
for the 686 build of FireFox, apparently, so that is why DSL obtained the
586 build. I installed mine about two weeks ago, don't know if the links are
ok today, but they probably are.
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:;):

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PhrozenFear Offline

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Posted: Mar. 09 2004,18:19

I know what it's supposed to do, but it doesn't. I go to the Menu => Apps => Net => Got Bandwidth => Get Firefox.

Then I get a cannot connect to host error (it's a different server IP from the one for firebird) and then it gets and installs the flash plugin, but with no browser. So I'm still at a loss. I've got 0.6.1 from about the 4th of March, so unless someone updated it wrong, or it's not the same on every mirror, I think I've got a problem. I wish I knew what was wrong - I like firebird, and firefox. But I can't use it on 0.6.1, only 0.6.0 (which I'm on now)

However, I'm gonna try a knoppix toram option tomorrow and see where it leads me.

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>>PhrozenFear

73, VE6MSP

I find your lack of penguin disturbing. -- Darth Tux