firefox doesn't work on amd64

Alexander Konovalenko kono at kth.se
Wed Aug 10 07:34:54 GMT 2005


> I did some more testing. I reloaded my box and started windowmaker.
> tried to load firefox from an rxvt term. A window never came up but it
> was listed in top.
> exited from wm and "su -" to root, startx and typed firefox. It worked
> as planned. closed and exited from xwindows and as su.
> started wmaker again and then I could start firefox as planned. So
> something isn't right.
>
> Aaro
>
> On 8/8/05, A Dude <adudek16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't have anything special configured. I didn't change anything
> > between 1.05 and 1.06 but do a portupgrade.
> >
> > Aaron
> >


actually I found that new Firefox 1.0.6 is less stable than 1.0.4(5) on both 
amd64 and i386. Though I dont have a problem ascribed above, on my amd64 
desktop and i386 laptop firefox crashes sometimes and flashplayer does not 
work anymore on i386 (on amd64 it never worked)


/Alexander Konovalenko



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