So, I recently upgraded to Firefox 4 in Fedora Core 14. It’s not officially supported (it’s supposed to be part of Core 15), but it seemed to install all right from an rpm. The other day, after an unrelated reboot, it started acting strangely. It wouldn’t reload my tabs from the previous session (the “Restore” button did nothing but go gray when I hit it). Also, it’s no longer loading Firefox 4 when I click on the icon for it — it loads 3.6. I actually removed 3.6, and 4, and reinstalled 4, using yum (after renaming my old .mozilla folder). I didn’t reinstall 3.6. Yet when I run Firefox, it runs 3.6. Other symptoms — the Firefox tab in the task manager at the bottom of the screen has no Firefox icon (it’s just generic), the search function doesn’t work.
Does anyone have any idea what’s going on?
[Update a while later]
Per a suggestion in comments, I did find a Firefox 5 package for Fedora 14. It seems to be working all right so far, except I’ve probably lost all the open tabs I had (and there were many dozen). Though perhaps all of the open tabs were part of my problem…
Time to upgrade to 5.0, then….
You may be anti-windos, but I went to Windows 7,Home premium and it works beautifully Much more responsive and talks to yoou when necessary ( such as when siomeone wishes to us your computer.) Give it a try, itmay work well for you. I loved firefox, but when loaded 7, it disappeared.
As the commercial says: “Try it, you’ll [maybe]like it!”