1

Firefox 18 /Fedora 18

view story
linux-howto

http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Anybody having issues with Firefox 18 in Fedora 18. Recent update causing Firefox to either not start up, or start real slow. Sometimes it acts like it is starting, then it stalls. Attempting to restart gives message the Firefox is still running, close and try again. Henry (HowTos)

unic's picture
Submitted by unic on 01/17/2013

Stories similar to Firefox 18 /Fedora 18

Firefox vs Firefox? 17 weeks 4 days ago

My question basically pertains to running firefox from the repo vs running it from /opt. What I usually do is download firefox from mozilla ftp, extract, move to /opt, set symlink to plugins, and then edit /usr/shar/applications/firefox.destop, then save with new name.

I upgraded the firefox from 3.6.8 to 10.0.5 using yum on my Centos 6 machine.Now each time I start firefox, there is always an error message saying that " firefox: xcb_io.c:542: _... [by pengyou54]

apparmor and Firefox 9 weeks 2 days ago

I am currently re-setting up the apparmor profile for Firefox 19.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 and I am slightly confused.

I'm seeing weirdness with Scottrade's main screen with Firefox (not the real-time streaming quotes app). It seems after a few minutes, whether idling or otherwise, Firefox gets into a state where nothing on the Scottrade page is clickable. Firefox menus still work as do other tabs so Firefox itself is still alive. It's as if a timer fires inside Firefox that renders the Scottrade page inert.

Hello,

I have one question about Fedora 17: When i like to start a application/program from Fedora 17, i like to see a password.

So when i start a application/program, i like to see: 'enter password before starting application/program' or something.

And when i start Fedora 17, firefox will start directly.

Hi friends

Hello,

I have one question about Fedora 17: When i like to start a application/program from Fedora 17, i like to see a password.

So when i start a application/program, i like to see: 'enter password before starting application/program' or something.

And when i start Fedora 17, firefox will start directly.

Trying to run Firefox from the command line with LightDM stopped. What I would like is to start Firefox and when I close it I return to the command line.

I can do this now by starting LightDM, logging in, opening Firefox, using Firefox, closing Firefox, and stopping LightDM.

The following page suggests that trickle should work with Firefox for controlling up/download bandwidth, but I can't get it to work. Attempting to launch it via the shell script or directly with the firefox executable

trickle -d 128 -u 56 firefox