Firefox in Mint.

replica9000 · 01-17-2015, 10:04 PM

Random question:

So I was browsing this thread on another forum, and realized that even though Mint is based off of Ubuntu, why does Mint package the pre-built Firefox from Mozilla instead of just using the version already in the Ubuntu repos?

buttugly · 01-17-2015, 10:44 PM

Only reason I've run across is they dork your ability to change search engines to make you use theirs (the ones that give em kick backs)

JWJones · 01-18-2015, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by buttugly

Only reason I've run across is they dork your ability to change search engines to make you use theirs (the ones that give em kick backs)

Really? I use Startpage to search with FF in LM 17.1 without any issues, changing it was as easy as anywhere else.

ivtec · 01-18-2015, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buttugly

Only reason I've run across is they dork your ability to change search engines to make you use theirs (the ones that give em kick backs)

Not true; cause i installed Mint 17.1 rebeca xfce and installed google chrome really easy and i run both Chrome and Firefox one or the other with no issues.

https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

Download Chrome for another platform

ivtec · 01-23-2015, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivtec

Not true; cause i installed Mint 17.1 rebeca xfce and installed google chrome really easy and i run both Chrome and Firefox one or the other with no issues.

https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

Download Chrome for another platform

Update on Linuxmint 17.1 and Google chrome,go here to install Google chrome much easier.

http://media-opensource.blogspot.com...-released.html

273 · 01-23-2015, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by replica9000

Random question:

So I was browsing this thread on another forum, and realized that even though Mint is based off of Ubuntu, why does Mint package the pre-built Firefox from Mozilla instead of just using the version already in the Ubuntu repos?

As an aside: where do Canonical gat it from? I'm assuming they get it from Mozilla also since it's not in Debian in that form.
Oh, though occurred, the people messing with search etc., mentioned above, are Canonical so Mint bypass it?

nh_linux · 02-14-2015, 12:12 PM

My question is about Mozilla Firefox 35.0.1 . Why do I keep getting a message about non-responsive text? I de-installed Firefox and re-installed it using "Software Manager" running in Linux Mint 17.Firefox sticks a lot especially when I see this message popping up frequently.

Nicholas.

frankbell · 02-14-2015, 09:22 PM

What is the precise wording of the error message and under what circumstances (or which URLs) does it occur?

nh_linux · 02-15-2015, 10:39 AM

The answer is attached.Let me know if the attachment opened.

I doesn't happen with all urls. I browse a lot of sites.

I use Chromium in Linux Mint 17 and the problem does not occur.

frankbell · 02-15-2015, 08:32 PM

I have seen that message from time to time. I usually click "Stop Script."

I am almost completely certain that the issue is a misbehaving or malformed script, not Firefox. Some browsers choose not to warn you of such things; Firefox does.

If you want to find out what the precise problem is, you could install the Firefox noscript add-on, disable scripts, then re-enable them one-by-one to find the culprit, but, frankly, it's probably not worth the effort.

I did find an article with a suggestion as to how to disable that error in Firefox's about:config routine. http://just-ask-kim.com/fixfacebook-...ezing-firefox/

Note that the article refers specifically to Facebook, but I believe the suggested action would be global.

rokytnji · 02-15-2015, 09:23 PM

Some days I feel like a nut.

Code:

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidate: 35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     28.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Some days I don't

Code:

 apt-cache policy opera-developer
opera-developer:
  Installed: 29.0.1773.0
  Candidate: 29.0.1773.0
  Version table:
 *** 29.0.1773.0 0
        500 http://deb.opera.com/opera-developer/ stable/non-free amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I turned my wife onto Google-Chome browser on her Windows 7 laptop. So running Chromium gives me all her addons and bookmarks
which I do not wish to run. So chromium dropped to the wayside for me.

Code:

 $ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17
DISTRIB_CODENAME=qiana
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17 Qiana"

273 · 02-16-2015, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

I have seen that message from time to time. I usually click "Stop Script."

I am almost completely certain that the issue is a misbehaving or malformed script, not Firefox. Some browsers choose nreot to warn you of such things; Firefox does.

I have to agree with this. I have seen websites cause IE on Windows 7, 8 and 10 to "not respond" and I've seen both Chrome and Chromium on Linux take a while to render a page fully. From what I've seen this tends to happen more with sites which rely upon third-party javascript so I rarely see it with Firefox as I install NoScript as a matter of course to, amongst other reasons, prevent this kind of problem.