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heftig

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 159

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Just a rebuild.

eightbitbrad

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From: Georgia, USA

Registered: 2010-10-28

Posts: 10

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Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

I've tried search around, but is there an updated build to get Firefox 4 beta 12?

taavi

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From: Tartu, Estonia

Registered: 2010-10-10

Posts: 50

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Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919

JokerBoy

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From: România

Registered: 2009-09-24

Posts: 641

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

how about http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/firefox-beta/ ?

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Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

I use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38753 as do other 371 other people and am happy with it.

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,358

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Anyone noticed that when opening a webpage on a new tab now there's a blindingly white page until the page actually starts rendering? It's not the 'about:blank' page and hence doesn't obey the firefox or theme colors.

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beaconfield

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 6

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

@heftig

I am new to Arch linux and one of the first things I want to tackle is getting Firefox 4.0 installed on Arch. I've installed x86_64 on a box at home. My question is this:

I would like to be able to download a Firefox 4.0 tarball from the Mozilla ftp (ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases) and install that on my Archbox. Since I'm new to Arch, can you give me some guidance on how to use pacman to install the appropriate libraries, e.g.

"    Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:
        GTK+ 2.10 or higher
        GLib 2.12 or higher
        Pango 1.14 or higher
        X.Org 1.0 or higher
    For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
        NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
        DBus 1.0 or higher
        HAL 0.5.8 or higher
        GNOME 2.16 or higher"

I have experience installing Firefox this way on Ubuntu and Fedora, just not Arch specifically.

I will certainly try to search for these packages using pacman when I get home, but if you have some tips, I would appreciate anything you can think of! Thanks!

Matt

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mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Install it from AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38753

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beaconfield

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 6

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

@mrunion

Oh great, I'll look into that, thanks.

*reads AUR wiki page*

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faya972

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Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 6

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Good morning every body, I have a noob question.
I would like to install Firefox 4 beta (i already know how to do so from AUR) but what will happen when the stable version appear in extra ?
Will I have to uninstall the beta ?

Thank you for your answers and please excuse my english, I'm french ...

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

@faya972 you would have to do pacman -S firefox when is out. the profile is not affected at all

Last edited by wonder (2011-03-05 10:44:05)

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faya972

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Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 6

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Ok thank you but the beta version I installed from AUR will remain on my system ?
I don't want the two versions be present at the same time

davidm

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Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 371

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Ok thank you but the beta version I installed from AUR will remain on my system ?
I don't want the two versions be present at the same time

Often the packages are named separately so that they do not conflict in that way.  For example "firefox" vs "firefox-beta-bin".  If they are set up in that way you can remove or install each separately and yes they would remain on the drive unless you manually remove the package in question.

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fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 771

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Might we get an update to rc1 of this package?

zexar

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Registered: 2009-05-15

Posts: 23

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

I installed firefox 4rc from firefox.com. Everything works fine except new UI. I don't see a single button like at screenshots. I have default ff3 menu bar. Everybody gets such problem?

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 388

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

You have to disable the menubar

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

I installed firefox 4rc from firefox.com. Everything works fine except new UI. I don't see a single button like at screenshots. I have default ff3 menu bar. Everybody gets such problem?

Right-click on the menubar, untick "Menu Bar", and voila!

zexar

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Registered: 2009-05-15

Posts: 23

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

It's working! Thank you!

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 771

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Just updated from b12 til rc1 and for some reason now links in thunderbird do not open in firefox anymore. Matter of fact nothing happens now when I click a link in Thunderbird.

EDIT: Fixed it!

Last edited by fettouhi (2011-03-19 07:30:57)

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 771

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Firefox 4.0rc2 is out!

cylverbak

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Registered: 2010-11-04

Posts: 60

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

@fettouhi
What did you do to get links working? I'm having the same problem and haven't found a solution.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Just updated from b12 til rc1 and for some reason now links in thunderbird do not open in firefox anymore. Matter of fact nothing happens now when I click a link in Thunderbird.

EDIT: Fixed it!

How? This annoys me too but I haven't got time to look into it yet.

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 771

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

added http and https under file types in thunderbird and told it to use firefox.

cylverbak

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Registered: 2010-11-04

Posts: 60

Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

ah, under Preferences > Attachments where it says "Always Ask" but it never did. Thank you. I'd been adding it under the configuration editor with no success.

karabaja4

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 1,032

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Re: Firefox 4.0 beta packages available

Thanks for the repo!

I sincerely hope that final Firefox 4.0 offical repo package will have these cairo LCD patches included...
Otherwise if you would be so kind to build the final version too?