Firefox crashed on Slackware 14.1 64bit?
 

hello,
i tried to upgrade my Firefox so i download tar file and extract it and then i replace it /usr/bin/ with new Firefox and then i tried to open Firefox the error is i searched on net but no use can any body tell me what i am wrong with my Firefox and how to fix it.thanks in advance.

That's not how you upgrade software. A slackware package distributes the files under /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /usr/share. The tar file you download from mozilla's website is the application all in a single /firefox directory.


The simplist thing you can do with firefox for just a local installation is to unzip the firefox tar file into your home directory. You will then have a /firefox directory in your home directory. Then launch it with /home/yourusername/firefox/firefox Then just remember not use the system installed firefox.

To install flash, download flash manually, unzip it and put the libflashplayer.so into /home/yourusername/firefox/browser/plugins directory (you'll have to create the plugins directory first).

Again, this will just be a local install for 1 user (you). If that's all you need then this is the easiest way.

maybe try this instead find the latest Firefox binary package?

...or get the latest Firefox for Slackware from the /patches directory of your Slackware release, and install it with "upgradepkg" or "installpkg".

Thanks it is worked for me.
previously i just use cd command to go to /home/username/firefox/firefox it display a error.after i just type like this the browser was open.thanks.

It sounds to me like what happens when you try to run the 32-bit (i686) version of Firefox on 64-bit Slackware. You can get the 64-bit version at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/r...43.0.4.tar.bz2 (This is the US English version, current as of 9 Jan 2016.
Or you can use the directions in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/r...est/README.txt to get the latest version for any language and any OS.
For what it's worth, I use the binaries from mozilla.org on Slackware 14.1, since the Slackware gang provides the esr version (due to issues with KDE4 -- I use XFCE, so no worries for me).
I just tar the .gz file from Mozilla.org in /usr/local, then link the firefox binary in /usr/bin and edit the desktop file to use the icon in /usr/local/firefox/browser/icons/

I hope that helps!
Stu...