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    SUSE SLED 10 firefox and GTK library

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by wearetheborg, Jun 19, 2008.

  1. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    I've had problems with firefox crashing daily:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=259028

    So I upgraded last week to service pack 2 of SLED 10.
    The firefox stability has increased a teeny bit (now crashing only once a day instead of 2-3 times/day). The SP2 upgraded GTK2 library from 2.8.10 to 2.8.11

    I'd now like to use firefox 3. However it complains that GTK2 lib 2.10 or later is required. Anyone know where I can get SLED package for GTK2 ?
     
    wearetheborg, Jun 19, 2008
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    azerty Notebook Guru

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    azerty, Jun 23, 2008
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    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    'borg, just curious....why SLED? Are you using this at work?
     
    theZoid, Jun 23, 2008
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  4. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    Thanks I'll try that.

    No. I installed SLED 2 years ago. I had first tried mandriva, and there was some problem with the video driver, then I tried SLED and it worked out of the box. Remember that this was before Novell stabbed linux users in the back, and beryl etc were still in infancy.
    Its still on my laptop now, as I work from it, and I'm hesistant of breaking stuff. But I need to update to a new distro soon.

    For example, I tried Mint live, and tried to install the NVIDIA drivers via the built in tool, and it messed up the X config.
    I'm thinking of waiting out till later this year and installing Debian Lenny. The 2nd beta is already out.

    EDIT: Those instructions worked flawslessly (I just had to install a TIFF library thru YAST), typing now on firefox-3 :)
    Now that firefox-3 is working, I may not upgrade the distro this year at all :)
    I may wait till next year when I get a new hard drive (current one is 60GB 5400 rpm and a tad small :D )
     
    wearetheborg, Jun 24, 2008
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    sarenax Newbie

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    How do I copy Firefox bookmarks between users on the same computer?
    I created a new user, opened Firefox, and there are only the default bookmarks. There is an "import" function, but it only offers to import Internet Explorer bookmarks. Is there any way to copy/import between users on the same machine?
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    sarenax, Jun 10, 2009
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  6. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you go into .mozilla and further into the profiles directory, there is a bookmarks.html file. Just copy that over into the new profile direcotry
     
    wearetheborg, Jun 10, 2009
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  7. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Please don't revive old threads.
    This thread is ancient.
     
    Thomas, Jun 10, 2009
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