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John Forkosh <
forkosh@panix.com> wrote:
> I have a slackware64-current installed from 2023-Feb-07,
> running mozilla-firefox-109.0.1-x86_64-1.txz as originally
> installed at that time. And that`s been working just fine.
> But a site said it`s an old browser that they won`t be
> supporting much longer.
>
> So I downloaded mozilla-firefox-115.0-x86_64-1.txz
> back on 2023-Jul-06, and just got around to
> upgradepkg --reinstall mozilla-firefox-115.0-x86_64-1.txz
> which seemed to work, i.e., the messages said it reinstalled
> the package. And firefox came up when executed,
> and Help-->About_Firefox said it was 115. But then, when I tried
> loading a page from a site, it just sat there and did nothing.
>
> I played around with it for a while, but got nowhere.
> So I then went back to the old package with
> upgradepkg --reinstall mozilla-firefox-109.0.1-x86_64-1.txz
> and that now correctly works just as it`s been working since
> originally installed.
>
> So what did I do wrong, and how do I upgrade firefox
> so that it actually works?
Some additional googling solved the problem...
(a) downloaded script latest-firefox.sh
from
https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672798
(b) then ran the script to create
mozilla-firefox-117.0-x86_64-1ro.tgz
(c) then, as root, ran
upgradepkg --install-new mozilla-firefox-117.0-x86_64-1ro.tgz
Now everything works with the new firefox 117.
Hmm... was my problem above that I used --reinstall
rather than --install-new as used here?
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John Forkosh ( mailto:
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