Firefox3.0.10 Problems

[Pete Randall]

OK, I swremoved both. I then tried swinstalling together as in 1). That didn't work, so I swremoved and tried swinstalling gtk, then firefox. That didn't work.

I'd be happy to play with SHLIB_PATH, though I can tell you that /opt/gtk2.6/lib is already there and I don't have a clue what else it might need.


Pete

[TTr · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this thread
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?&threadId=1352801

I know this is not for version 3 but the problem may be the order of SHLIB_PATH and whether you have duplicate sets of the same library package under /opt and under /usr/local.

Try starting firefox with the bare minimum libraries and see what it is looking for. Look at my last 4-5 rplies in the above thread and try running firefox from its installed location bypassing the startup script, as in (I assume the binary files are still the same)

export SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox-bin

[Pete Randall]

Yes, I remember that thread. Fascinating. It also worked again in this instance. Simply using your two line startup seems to have done the trick. I'll do some experimenting with SHLIB_PATH to see if I can figure out where the problem really lies, but, for the meantime, I can live with a modified startup - as long as it works.

Thanks!


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Holy cow! Is that pig slow, or what? Has anyone else had the joy of waiting and waiting and waiting? Duncan?


Pete

[TTr]

I just installed ver 3 as well. It is sloooooooooow.
I got the same error if I tried to start it up normally. It started up with the two-lin start up method above.

Then I added /opt/gtk+2/lib in the library path and it blew up again with the original error. Maybe there is a newer gtk+2 bundle.

I also remember from the tusk output in that other thread that firefox will be looking for a shared library in several places using the absolute path and using the paths in SHLIB_PATH. So I think that's where the problem is.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

yes very slow... I only tried it the once though... does it set a bunch of stuff up first time - any faster after that???

HTH

Duncan

[Pete Randall]

Thanks, everyone, for all the help. As usual, you guys are the greatest.

Too bad that, after all that, I can't use the stupid thing because of it's slowness. I think I'm going to go back to Firefox V2 that I used to use, though I'm apparently going to have to mess with it's SHLIB_PATH, too. In the meantime, don't laugh, I've gone back to Mozilla and there were some things I really liked about it.

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Pete

[Dennis Handly]

>I can't use the stupid thing because of it's slowness.

Thanks for the warning, I wonder if my server is fast enough?
Would you like me to notify the firefox team?

[Pete Randall]

Well, it's about time you showed up, Dennis. Just kidding, but I really thought you would have been all over this thread as soon as I posted it.

As far as the slowness goes, all I can tell you is that it appears to be CPU bound and as soon as I try to do anything with it (like reload a page I'm viewing), the CPU utilization shoots right up to 90% or more and I can't tell whether it's actually doing something or not. So you end up clicking on something else, not sure you actually clicked on what you thought you did, and now you've compounded your problem.

I'm trying to run it on a C3000 workstation with 1 PA8500 400 Mhz cpu and 1GB of memory. I didn't bother trying it on anything else because it's really for my personal use and the C3000 is my personal platform. Your mileage may vary.

I would think the Firefox team would like to know about his, wouldn't you?


Pete

[Pete Randall]

No, sorry, I can't help. I was completely unable to use it because it was so slow so I got rid of it. If you go through the above discussion, you will see that the startup issues appeared to have something to do with SHLIB_PATH. We got around that. I think what you need to do is work on the response time because nobody is going to be able to use it when it has multi-second response times.


Pete