The Lucid Lynx Thread

[MickZA]

Very weird - try installing chromium from the software center and see if that works.

 

[blackguyza]

Very weird - try installing chromium from the software center and see if that works.

Thanks. I writing this from Chromium!

 

[kingrob]

Thanks. I writing this from Chromium!

Well done! Chrome looks horrible in Ubuntu, but if you play around with font settings, it can look prettier.

Try Droid Sans.

 

[RSkeens]

I can do the updates on my newly installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx but I can't get Firefox to connect to the internet.

Please help.

Firefox will hang if there are packages it needs that are not installed on the system. I recommend you try installing Flash, as that is most likely needed and would explain Google working but not MyADSL.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Firefox will hang if there are packages it needs that are not installed on the system. I recommend you try installing Flash, as that is most likely needed and would explain Google working but not MyADSL.

MyBB does not need flash - I don't have flash on any of my machines and firefox works fine.

 

[MickZA]

Thanks. I writing this from Chromium!

OK, when you have time, try sudo apt-get remove firefox, reboot and sudo apt-get install firefox (package might be mozilla-firefox). Firefox working now?

Good advice from RSkeens:

... answer will in most likelihood solve the problem but I would recommend he add the "--purge" option to your apt-get remove and remove the .mozilla directory in his ~ before installing Firefox again.

 

[RSkeens]

MyBB does not need flash - I don't have flash on any of my machines and firefox works fine.

What I described was not a case of MyADSL needing Flash at all - I described Firefox trying to use the Flash plugin but not finding it and then hanging.

 

[BigAl-sa]

What I described was not a case of MyADSL needing Flash at all - I described Firefox trying to use the Flash plugin but not finding it and then hanging.

my firefox doesn't need flash...

[edit]
BGza should prolly try removing all his FF addons, then putting them back one at a time
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[froot]

my firefox doesn't need flash...

I have flash installed (I installed every kind of flash imaginable, even a battery-powered flash ) but some sites still won't load the flash content.... ??

 

[BigAl-sa]

I have flash installed (I installed every kind of flash imaginable, even a battery-powered flash ) but some sites still won't load the flash content.... ??

Just shows, you don't need the flash rubbish

 

[RSkeens]

my firefox doesn't need flash...

[edit]
BGza should prolly try removing all his FF addons, then putting them back one at a time
[/edit]

Again what I meant was if Firefox expects Flash but can't access it, it will hang. It happens if your Flash installation is damaged or not even installed but Firefox's config still calls for it.

 

[MickZA]

I think the flash possibility can be discounted. I've loaded Firefox on many systems (Linux & Windows) and a page will always partially display at least before warning of a "missing plugin".

This is a strange problem so I'm interested to hear the outcome of my suggestion in my last post.

 

[RSkeens]

I think the flash possibility can be discounted. I've loaded Firefox on many systems (Linux & Windows) and a page will always partially display at least before warning of a "missing plugin".

This is a strange problem so I'm interested to hear the outcome of my suggestion in my last post.

Your answer will in most likelihood solve the problem but I would recommend he add the "--purge" option to your apt-get remove and remove the .mozilla directory in his ~ before installing Firefox again.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Your answer will in most likelihood solve the problem but I would recommend he add the "--purge" option to your apt-get remove and remove the .mozilla directory in his ~ before installing Firefox again.

Agree. Maybe not clear the whole ~/.mozilla directory, but at least the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory

 

[MickZA]

Your answer will in most likelihood solve the problem but I would recommend he add the "--purge" option to your apt-get remove and remove the .mozilla directory in his ~ before installing Firefox again.

Good point - added to original post

 

[blackguyza]

I tried

 sudo apt-get --purge remove firefox

Then restarted the computer and then

mpho@mpho-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
[sudo] password for mpho: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  firefox-branding
Suggested packages:
  firefox-gnome-support kmozillahelper latex-xft-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox firefox-branding
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/11.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 29.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package firefox-branding.
(Reading database ... 145980 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox-branding (from .../firefox-branding_3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package firefox.
Unpacking firefox (from .../firefox_3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_ZA.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up firefox-branding (3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up firefox (3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4) ...
Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems

But Firefox still returns "The connection has timed out".

Did I use the --purge option correctly?

 

[RSkeens]

Did you move the /home/mpho/.mozilla/firefox directory somewhere else (as a backup) before installing Firefox?

 

[MickZA]

... Firefox still returns "The connection has timed out".

This problem is mentioned here https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/664450

If I get time today I will investigate further.

 

[MickZA]

@blackguyza

There are several mentions of what seems to be the same problem but no definite diagnosis of the cause.

I did find the following on Ubuntu forums though:

Re: Firefox not working on some sites

Using Synaptic I purged firefox, and reinstalled--no result. I then after purging went back and manually deleted all firefox and mozilla folders in my root system. Then I installed it again.

Now everything works perfectly. I wonder what the problem was.

Using my installation as a reference you would delete the root folders with:

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox*


Try this when you can (your usage of the purge option is correct).

 

[blackguyza]

@MickZA

I did exactly as you adviced, removed firefox, removed the root folders, rebooted, installed firefox, but I can only open www.google.co.za on Firefox. I can't even open MYADSL.