Firefox 4 on Linpus

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  1. sirwiggum

    sirwiggum

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    Anyone had any luck installing Firefox 4 on Linpus?

    Also, I posted to the driver forum, but no harm in asking, anyone used Linpus Broadcom wireless drivers?
     
    sirwiggum, Apr 18, 2011
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    From what I've read, upgrading Firefox on Linpus doesn't work too well - it apparently requires upgrades to too many Linpus components, breaking Linpus. However, Firefox4 on Fedora 15 (now in beta) works well for me on my AOA150.
     
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    I might leave it then.
    Hard to believe we are at Fedora 15 already, Linpus is built on Fedora 8 (IIRC) and I had an old work machine used to run 9 not so long ago!

    FF 3.6 does everything I need it to, and I have OSX and XP partitions for FF4 usage.

    Thanks anyway RockDoctor!
     
    sirwiggum, Apr 20, 2011
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    I got Firefox 4 working on linpus with these instructions:
    http://linuxforums.org.uk/netbooks/inst ... ite-linux/

    The trick is to retrieve a missing library and unpack it into the /opt/firefox folder, getting rid of this error:
    /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /opt/firefox/libxul.so)

    Seriously considering switching to LUbuntu though.. There are instructions for doing that here:
    viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21539#p121053
     
    Neva, May 10, 2011
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    Lubuntu works well on the Aspire One, as does the Fedora LXDE spin (I've got both installed on my Aspire One). I tried both Gnome3 (Fedora 15) or Unity (Ubuntu 11.04) on my desktop PC - didn't like either one, so didn't even try to install either one on the AA1.
     
    RockDoctor, May 11, 2011
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