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firefox package

  1. Bug #60236
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 60236

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 60236] Re: Firefox Segmentation Fault Requires Reboot

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:18:36AM -0000, Walter wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thank you for realizing what I was trying to say. I was actually
> saying that someone used some of the Firefox Alpha upstream code in the
> Ubuntu release. Since when I attempted to install the Alpha as a
> seperate installation it did indeed produce the same error.

I understand that you see a bug in ubuntus version that does
not exist if you download firefox from mozilla.org.

However everything else you claim is a bit far reached.

>
> To answer Johns comments I never said it would solve the problem, at
> least not for everyone. This is why I implicitly stated that persons
> atempting this should first try if this would work as a seperate
> installation in their /opt directory.

Installing in /opt is fine ... installing in /usr/ hierarchy is
not supported. Did you install other software or libraries that way as
well?

 - Alexander