Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Firefox 3.0 crashed and would not start up again

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by
Rolf
on 8 June 2008
in Browser, FireFox, Music and Ubuntu
. 0 Comments

I’m using Firefox 3.0b5.. and suddenly it crashed on me.. Guess that’s in it self is no surprise.. But this time, it would not start up again when i clicked on the icon again.. I guess a reboot of my Ubuntu would have fixed the problem…

But here is how I temp-fixed it
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Building Liferea 1.5.3 from tar.gz

Published
by
Rolf
on 5 June 2008
in Browser, FireFox and Liferea
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When installing Liferea 1.5.3 from the tar.gz file, I ran into these problems, and here is a solution if you’re running Ubuntu. Here is how I managed to install all needed libs to get liferea 1.5.3 compiling. This is how ./configure become:

liferea 1.5.3
 
Build Mozilla Plugin............ : yes (firefox)
Build XulRunner Plugin.......... : yes
Build WebKit Plugin............. : no
Build GtkHTML Plugin............ : yes
 
Build libnotify Plugin.......... : yes
Build LUA scripting Plugin ..... : yes
 
Use X Session Management........ : yes
Use DBUS........................ : yes
Use NetworkManager.............. : yes
AVAHI Support................... : yes
 
Liferea will be installed in /usr/bin.
 
configure complete, now type 'make'

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