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cmays90

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Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 31

[Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

Instead of starting firefox3, I am getting a firefox 5 window (kinda defeats the purpoes of installing firefox3 from the AUR)

Anways, here is some (hopefully) relevant info

user ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*                                                                                                                                                                                        
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jun 18 23:14 /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/firefox                                                                                                                                                      
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug  4 19:37 /usr/bin/firefox3 -> /opt/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox

So that shows that it should be pointing to the right executable.  So I tried executing /opt/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox and still a Firefox5 window popped up.  Trying to start it with the profile manager does the same thing.

The only other thing I could think to try was this:

user ~ $ /opt/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin                                                                                                                                                                                               
Error: Platform version '5.0' is not compatible with                                                                                                                                                                                         
minVersion >= 1.9.2.19                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
maxVersion <= 1.9.2.19                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

My initial thoughts is that it might have something to do with xulrunner, but I am not sure.  Anyone have any ideas/how to test if it is xulrunner?

Last edited by cmays90 (2011-08-05 15:49:22)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

Have you tried 'firefox3'?

You can get older versions from ARM http://arm.konnichi.com/search/index.ph … ommunity=1 but they conflict with the current ones. This way you can be sure to launch firefox 3 w/o firefox 5 getting in your way (because it will be uninstalled) ;P

Last edited by karol (2011-08-05 01:09:16)

cmays90

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Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 31

Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

I want to keep firefox 5 on my system if at all possible.  There is a certain addon I use in very limited cases which is not compatible with firefox 5, and I haven't needed to use it til now.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

I want to keep firefox 5 on my system if at all possible.  There is a certain addon I use in very limited cases which is not compatible with firefox 5, and I haven't needed to use it til now.

Are you sure it's not compatible i.e. it doesn't work? Many add-ons for Firefox 5 work just fine w/ firefox 8 :-)
Have you tried e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … atibility/

cmays90

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Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 31

Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

Yea.  LOL.  Tried that.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

Yea.  LOL.  Tried that.

Have you tried closing all firefox 5 instances and starting firefox 3?

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

I'm the maintainer for firefox3. You need to run it with -no-remote (and preferably a different profile).

firefox3 -h

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cmays90

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Registered: 2009-12-18

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Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

I figured the different profile bit.  Thanks

ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Firefox3 from AUR is not starting up

Please mark as [solved] if it is.

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