Did you click the sequence I suggested? It does not go to the firefox download site, it does the update there and then. If you have used that option, was it still slow? Even when firefox has given a new major version IIRC it was much quicker than the download site.
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Originally posted by RLynwood View PostI answered this. No, that sequence isn't there. See post # 13.
Here is my tarball of version 124:
Then after it updated faster than I could grab a screenshot cuz I bee slowz:
And for reference using a natively packaged version, here is Fedora's on my laptop:
I am wondering if you may have multiple FF installed or something like that.
The tarball for FF updates itself, 100% independently from the OS or any other related systems - apt/debs, snap, or flatpak.
If yours is not auto-updating, then either your FF is broken, or it isn't the tar.bz2 thing. So we need to see what you have.Last edited by claydoh; Jun 11, 2024, 07:32 PM.
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I recently moved to KDE Neon. FireFox and Thunderbird have been my go to browser and email client for over ten years. Running FireFox was a nightmare of hangs and crashes. Thunderbird, which had one of the best autoconfigs of any app refused to connect to my mail and smtp services from my ISP. I have switched to Chromium as my browser and Betterbird as my email client. Zero problems with either one."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by RLynwood View Post
what are the ownership and permissions of /opt/firefox/*?
All my files in /opt/firefox are owned by my user, so when running firefox it can write there.
If it's not /opt, check the permissions where firefox has been installed. That will be wherever the firefox command is linked to.
Regards, John Little
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Right-clicking the background in /opt>Permissions, yields "Only the owner can change permissions." Owner, Group, and Others all are blanked out. Below, it says User: root, Group: root.
I installed this FF fr. Moz. with Schwarzer Kater's script, merely following instructions blindly, knowing absolutely nothing about what was going on. But it worked ... until now. Now what?
I sure appreciate all your help. Your, this forum, are godsends for this nontechie but dedicated Kub. desktop user (two computers).
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Originally posted by RLynwood View PostNow what?
Code:sudo chown -R your-username:your-username /opt/firefox
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Per Schwarzer Kater 's README for the Firefox script, the only sudo references are for runningsudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
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It worked. I haven't seen the update notification for about 24 hours, so I checked the Help>About page and saw a notification saying it had been updated and needed to be rebooted to register (whatever you call it) the updates. Here's the result:
Thank you, claydoh, for knowing what to do and all the others for your help.
And now I've managed to download/install Ff fr. Moz. on the HP laptop and completely synchronize it with the tower-24.04's. It, too, works in all ways.Last edited by RLynwood; Jun 15, 2024, 12:41 PM.
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