Firefox 1.5 does not work in my Mandriva 2006
 

I downloaded a *.tar.gz file, use tar zxvf to unpack it, go to the folder created, run ./firefox, it just hanged.
One row of message that i don't understand appeared.
Why?:scratch:

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08c3ce20 ***

The RPM`s work, and are kept up-to-date with current releases

That's only one line of the messages that it displayed?
If yes put all the other messages.

Tiger: I *think* that it is a consequence of moving to the new gcc compiler. I have experienced similar problems compiling other source tarballs I have downloaded. But I have found what I need on the easyurpmi repositories, so I have "worked around" the problem.

Ok I found a fix for this here

http://www.penguinpusher.org/2005/12...-mandriva-2006

I just created a bash script like the following in my /usr/bin directory called /usr/bin/firefox

#! /bin/bash

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

My firefox is installed at /usr/lib/firefox/ so change your script above accordingly.

don't forget to chmod +x /usr/bin/firefox

similar problems
 

i have almost the same problem he has.But i came up with a different error message:

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

im not kidding about my sig either :/

You need to install the libstdc++5 package.