Thanks for the post. I spent the last eight hours online trying to figure this out. Great job!

I followed the instructions to the letter, and I keep getting a connection refused error. Now I have no browser at all! HELP!

umm... great now I was following this tutorial and now my internet does not work at all! If you have no experiance with Linux don't but this computer!

Great post! I followed the instructions to the letter and everything worked perfectly including the change of icon on the desktop.

Only one thing - the new firefox 3 installed still doesn't allow "check for updates" to be selected. Did I somehow miss something? Thanks for the great post.

"sudo In " and "sudo 1n" it show in terminal as wrong command! pls help here! cant complete the process

kenlim:
it isn't "In" or "1n" it's "ln". It's a lowercase L, for link. Hope that helps.

Thanks for the great site. It's such a pity that Acer/Linpus didn't do most of this stuff by default.

work first timee

Sweet :D

Thanks - plebism

Thanks. Firefox 3 installed fine. But. just like in the original Acer version, Java does not function properly. For example, the GoToMyPC login applet does not start. I have not seen any solution to this.

Excellent - thank you so much for the help. Worked perfectly first time even though I am a complete novice

Hey. I was able to install firefox 3 and now its my default browser. I was also able to have the firefox icon on the desktop. BUT, when I click the icon, nothing happens...i.e., the program does not launch. I have to right click and find the firefox app to launch it manually. Any ideas? What did I do wrong?
dwayne

followed instruction and firefox icon wont launch it, but when creating a new profile, firefox 3 opens, only once...

Its working after the Line 39 change...it was all duplicted...looked like ///opt/firefox//opt/firefox/firefox...once I changed it to //opt/firefox/firefox-bin or something it worked.

I think I did the same thing. Have a number of "Brower"s in usr/share/applications.

I can get see the ///opt/firefox//opt/firefox/firefox... issue but don't know how to open it in a way that will let me save it. Also is there a way I can delete the other "browser"s?

Works now. Thanks!

Hi,
Worked perfectly for me. Thanks. How do I get rid of the old version? Or should I keep it?

Jon

This has been a great help for me as this was the first thing I wanted to do as soon as I fired my One up.

At the end of your guide you state that it's possible to change the icon to show the official FF logo. Could you also supply the code so that I can revert it back to Acer's one please =)

Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!

I've done it!! Al last I have update my firefox to 3. I don't know anything about linux. I would like to continue practising. Thanks, great post.

First: BIG Thank you for this blog.

Second : I want to know if you can make a post for changing the acer mail box into thunderbird(in the desktop too)
thx from noobs on linux (like me)
Alex from France

Well thanks. Hadn't a clue what I was doing but it seems to work fine!

I followed these instructions to the letter yet if I click the Firefox icon nothing happens. If I open firefox from the advanced menu it only opens firefox2. I checked line 38 of linpus-web.desktop and it is already set to /opt/firefox/firefox. please help, I don't want to have to restore my system to get the icon working again.

Great info. It worked at first time. Thank you very much Macles. Just the "Check for Updates" is still not active.

Could you please help me with another problem. I need a serial port on my
AA1. I have an ArkMicroChips USB to serial cable. I guess I need the ARK3116.ko file compiled for the Linpus version. I can not find it anywhere.

Thanks Jan

All works fine but how do you enable the Check for Updates menu item?

Perfect! Many thanks for the article and quick reponses.

Hello! I followed all the coding and I have the old Firefox icon on my desktop but when I click it no brower comes up, but I can get FIrefox 3 to load in the terminal. How can I get the Browser link on the desktop to link to the firefox 3 application?

It says:

Execopt/=/opt/firefox/firefox/firefox/firefox
Icon=firefox.png

Think that's too many firefoxes?

hmm, now it just shows the "working" spinning aura thing for a while and doesn't do anything, but I can still open Firefox 3 via the Profile Manager.

Nevermind, problem solved! I added an extra slash at the backend.

Thanks a bunch! You're doing a real service to us Linux newbies :). If you had a donate link, I'd use it!

Worked like a dream first time faaaaaaaaaaantastic!

well it was fantastic...... became unstable, spat its dummy out and restarted without the back and forward icons in the toolbar....HELP!

Thankz for help,no problem installing,auto updates enabled.......runs as it should although i did lose my bookmarks...:)

how do i uninstall FF 2?When i open hotmail from the connect panel it loads with FF2 even though FF3 is the default
any help appreciated

thanks a lot

Could I use similar code to install a Linux based version of Opera?

Cheers

Opera is easily installed by downloading & installing the rpm for Fedora Core 8 from the opera website. Firefox will automatically ask you if you wish to install it when downloading.

You can then run opera from the terminal by typing:
opera &

Thanks
The "connection refused error message" worried me a bit but everything is working perfect.
btw I have installed Personal menu and classic compact theme that go very nice with the one

Carles

Any help on my toolbar problem? (see 6 posts up)
would really like to have ff3. I had installed a theme onto the browser but it wasn't even in use when i got the error msg that said ff was reverting

wow..... worked first time... I have just used Linux.. I am soo smart.. S.M.R.T.
Thanks soo much.

Hello,
After a few weeks of owning the AA1 I am tired of the browser and attempted to install Firefox3.0.1 as per the posted instructions.However I now have no browser! Any suggestions?

Thank You & Regards

Lloyd Le Blanc

Hello,
I get "no such file or directory.
Firefox 3.0.1 is in my download file.

Thank You

Lloyd

Hello Again,

Retried everything and ... IT WORKS GREAT !!!!

Thank You & Best Regards,

Lloyd Le Blanc

Just do a backup for your firefox symlink as firefox.old in /usr/bin as su. Then symlink to your newly installed firefox3.

3 seconds job and you can go back to firefox2 if firefox3 is (like in my case) too memory hungry.

Jeffrey

Hi,

Total newbie to all this but it seems to have worked apart from "Check for updates" is still greyed out so I can't update from 3.0.1? I've added a new profile and deleted the old one. What to do?!?

I've followed your procedure and tried to run the profile manager, and then I get this error message:

Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property 'GtkTreeView:odd-row-color' of type 'GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb6f8a350" of type 'GString'

What have I done wrong here?

hey, thanks a bunch for this tutorial. gee, am a noob in linux and a lot research paid me off with my AA1. from skype to ff3. :) everything is working well now, i have one problem with my aa1 though, in acer messenger, voice call does not seem to be working with my YAHOO ACCOUNT. is there any chance that you know how to tweak this? thanks!

one problem, I can't watch youtube videos with firefox 3 replacing firefox 2 in AAO. :( it says install adobe flash player. I tried installing the .rpm file but it showed "adobe flash player is already installed" what should I do? :(

Regarding the Gtk "error"-message from yesterday: I forgot to say that ff3 doesn't start when I issue the command. It's just the Gtk-message, and nothing else...

I'll be very happy if you can help me wtih this :-)

Thanks for this, fantastic. Followed instructions and works fine. One quick query, does anyone know how to add search engines to the search bar. I.e. Ebay UK. On windows you get an option to "add this search" whilst on the site, but don't seem to have that option. Thanks again.

thanks for your help macles. I managed to install everything as u said however the Search the internet icon from the home page of the acer aspire one desktop still uses the version 2 of firefox. how can I also update that link??? thanking you in advance

oops sorry about that i should have read other users messages before...all is working fine now.. just one questiion.. if acer update the firefox from the liveupdate...what will happen??

I have followed your instructions and innstalled FF3 with succsess. FF3 runs if i run /opt/firefox/firefox in the command, but it cant make it run FF3 by default when i press alt-F2 and type "firefox" or using the firefox icon in the right click menu, both fires FF2. I have a Xfce desktop setup. I have tried all your fixes above, but none did the trick.

Do you have any idea whats wrong?

Thanks, I am a real newbie at this. I Havent used Linux before getting this aspire one.

That didnt work though, no it doesnt launch firefox at all. /opt/firefox/firefox in command does still work.. :)

I realized now that I have got a new icon just below the firefox icon in the right click menu that says "browser" and this launches FF3. The "firefox web browser" icon does still not work though..

The 1st command seemed to go fine but when I tried the 2nd, the 4 line command, nothing has happened. Help!!

Hello
Thank you so much. I tried initially manually writing in the code but then followed what you said and copied and pasted. It worked smoothly from thereon. I even have the firefox logo!
Thank you so much. Now I wish I could find equally good instructions to install aMSN!

thanks

Karen

Macles* - Thanks for this - it's working like a dream! I'm very happy to have found your instructions after weeks of searching! - Polka Dot Girl

I've got FF3 (3.0.3) now, very happy thanks!

I'm using the 'real' XFCE desktop, I copied /opt/firefox/firefox to /usr/bin as advised above and and the default browser setting went wonky. I got an I/O error when using the applications menu entry, and a 'Mozilla libs not found' when I ran it from a command prompt. I resolved this by softlinking from /usr/bin instead:

mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox2
ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

(the first line avoids overwriting the old start script so that I can revert to FFox2 more easily in an emergency)

I know this is a trivial question, but I was wondering how I could change from the Firefox icon from the last step of your instructions back to the original icon?

Thanks

The Install worked perfectly expect I ran into a problem where I now have no icon for the Browser, can any help me restore the original Icon?

Sorry, I'm new to Linux.

Thanks

Hello,

I recently installed installed FF 3.O.1 after your great advice and it works great.My AA1 is the 16G SSD and I would like to install XP that I now have loaded on a flash drive.My primary reason is that I will be travelling in North America for the first 3 months of next year and would like to use the AA1 in my car as a GPS.I have the GPS version of Streets & Trips.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank You & Regards

Lloyd

Thanks, I just copied and pasted via the xterm that's accessible from advanced mode. It worked perfectly well, thank you!
Could you please write another one for us newbies on upgrading OpenOffice to the latest version as well?
And how to install thunderbird as default email application?
Please ...
:)

Thanks for all your words of advice. I can now run Firefox 3 on my Aspire One. I am new, and I have tried to find the answer to this questions in the comments above, but the only way I can get to Firefox 3 is by the /opt/firefox/firefox command in terminal, or in the run program command line. How can I get an icon on the home munu to work with 3? Again, thanks for your time and effort here...

I'm having the same issue with the guy above.

I have FF3 working out of /opt/firefox/firefox directory. And can run it by going there manually or typing it in from the terminal.

I have advanced mode on. After I type in all the commands...FF3 is running. I can right click on the web browser in the advanced mode and it opens ff3. However the second i close the terminal after the commands are all entered ff3 closes as well and then the icons all revert back to FF2 and it does this finding plugins shit for ff2 and everything is back to ff2 again.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

It stalls at the end of edesktop/* in the terminal and has a blinking |.

I can still type in the profile part and it opens ff3 etc. the next command to overwrite the icon on the desktop on my aspire one didn't do anything after 3 reboots.

i followed all the steps but now i ca not go no more on internet!!!when i click on the browser nothing appens..

HEEELLLPPP!!!

Firefox 3.0.3 installed and works fine, when started from desktop. However, when I start a link from within Skype, I get the error: Failed to execute default Web Browser. Failed to execute child process "Firefox" (No such file or directory). When I start a link from a message from within Aspire one Mail, nothing happens at all. Probably due to the same cause.
How is this to be fixed?

This worked perfectly for me on my brand you Acer Aspire One. Love you man :) and thanks you very much. Keep the tutorials coming :)

Great. Thanks!

I used these prompts and everything was working smoothly until I rebooted my system and clicked on my normal 'web browser surf the internet' world icon hoping to see the new firefox 3 and able to use features that I wasent able to use with firefox 2 and they still didnt work! I clicked on 'help' on the toolbar and to 'about mozilla firefox' which still said it was 'firefox 2'and when looking at 'check for updates' it was still greyed out. Argh, can someone help me???

I followed the steps and I now have FF3 installed. I also have no AA1 Connect browser icon. I just have the word 'Browser'. It's clickable and brings up FF3, but I liked the icon better. I tried the instruction above to restore the original icon, but that didn't work either. I did re-boot between changes. Also the right-click menu - Web Browser still brings up FF2. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

Perfect! I opted for the official one. Thanks.

Thanks! The offical one worked well.

Thanks for the tutorial! It worked. The only thing I encountered was that the hotmail icon doesn't work anymore. Is there anything I should alter to make the hotmail icon work again?

Thanks. Gary van Steenbergen Amsterdam The Netherlands

Please help!
I've followed your instructions to the letter, and I could launch the profile manager but it's impossible for me to launch firefox 3.
I've disabled desktop icons so I'm trying to access firefox 3 by running /opt/firefox/firefox in the terminal. This brings up firefox, but it is firefox 2.
How do I get to firefox 3?

cannot get ff3 to save in opt folder, it saves in desktop HELP PLEASE I cant pate in opt

Nothing happen it just a blank screen when i put in the code for extracting plz help!

Many Many thanks for this brilliant and easy walk through!!

been wondering how to get this firefox update for a while now!!

brilliant!!


R

Thank you for this post! I have never done anything with Linux, and this worked instantly and without problems. Very helpful!

thanks for the contribution, it works great, sudos from Mexico

Genius- worked first time for a Linux Newbie. Very much appreciated

i've done everything it says, can someone make a video of how to do it?

and i writes /opt/firefox/firefox in the terminal but it dont work

How can I get access to OPT folder? It wont let me save to OPT

FF3 At last

I have some package which run through a browser, they are math packages for tracking the path of the sun etc but they require Adobe Shockwave. Is there an alternantive which does the samne or can replace this?

Cmon someone must know how to get permission to opt folder???

Hello Randy,

using "sudo" before any command gives you all the rights on your machine.

Just be carefull...

Regards

what command would i need to send my ff3 file loacted in my documents to opt folder sudo plus what?

Your tutorial didnt go as planned. Something happens to the security when I try to open firefox. Doing a fresh recovery as we speak. Im not a noob at Linux but Im not a power user either. So I dont know what happened, I copied and pasted your code...wtf!?

Just recently purchased an Aspire One for portability. Had planned on possibly getting the Windows version (so I would have compatibility with my desktop PC), but a friend said I should be able to file share documents between the two, so I took the plunge and got a Linux system instead.

After playing with it and also wanting to upgrade a few items on there, I found this link to upgrade the browser. Now to my question: considering some of the problems some new folks have had with following your directions, is there some means of backing up the system just in case I FUBAR the existing browser? I mean, I'm not a complete idiot, but I have never played with Linux at all, and it seems a little weird that I need to do what amounts to coding in order to update a couple of programs. For that reason, I'm a little leery of cutting and pasting lines that I have absolutely no idea what they do.

hi this was massively helpful im very greatful thanks

hi, as well as this being massivelky helpful, i then went back and tried to edit my browser logo to teh firefox logo and instead i have lost all logos for it! :(
thanks

Super!! :-)
I've just followed the instructions, changing 3.0.1 to 3.0.4 and language en-GB and hey presto I'm up to date. Thanks for such a clear description....

Rolf

I followed your instructions for adding firefox 3.0.1 and all went well including the desktop icon, however everytime I click on the Icon I get the software license agreement. I am thinking I must have missed a step or something. Have any ideas to the problem? Thank you.

Thanks so much for the great hack. I have now updated to firefox 3 and all works well. The previous time when I tried it I neglected to delete the old profile and when I retried everything worked as expected. Thanks for everything.

Worked a treat, many thanks.

the terminal closes after its dun the first step, then it carnt find the file

" The command "vlc" failed to run:
Failed to execute child process "vlc" (No such file or directory) "
Any idea how to run VLC on my Acer one ? Its installed already.

Perfection!!!
Copied and Pasted commands.
Many thanks.

Thanks for the instruction. Everything work fine the first time.

Great thanks, just upgraded to 3.0.5.

FF3 (a modified version of 3.0.3) is available on Acer's support pages.

I am brand new to Linpus and i think this is a great job!

Hi, I installed the FF3 3.0.3 provided by Acer (40 MB, why?) but every now and then the browser shuts down viewing some pages, perhaps some bug solved in the new realease available. Now is there a way to upgrade the patched version of Acer ? It's better to remove it and then install the newer version in /etc/opt/ or can I upgrade simply giving as installation dir /usr/lib/ (I can see there the folder firefox-3.0.3)? Thank for your help.

Installed the FF3.0.3 provided by Acer and now I cannot get rid of the google toolbar. I prefer the firefox toolbar over it. Any ideas on that?

Also with the provided FF3 is there a way to enable the updates for it? ie will the command in the comments above work still?

Jeff

i need to install it please

ff3 -profilemanager -no-remote dosnt work

Following on from all of the above can anyone help? My problem is as follows:

Hello, I'm new to the Linux OS; recently I bought an Acer AspireOne 150 (blue case, 120Gb HD, 512Mb RAM, etc) with Acer Linpus Lite pre-installed. I only need the One for mailing and Web access while travelling so no great demands being made of it.

I should have left well alone but decided I wanted to upgrade the Firefox V2 browser for Firefox V3.0; big mistake – I quickly found that Linux is not Windows XP! Having followed the instructions set down in (URL http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/installing-firefox-3-on-acer-aspire-one.html) I know find that I'm unable to access the Internet from the Aspire One's 'Connect Browser' desktop icon; indeed I cannot connect to the Internet at all as the link from the icon to the Firefox application is broken. I can use all other functions – Messenger, E-mail, etc., so I'm sure web access is there but not for the Firefox browser.

This should be the time I decide to give up on Linux and load XP Home but in the main I'm more than happy with the performance of Linpus Lite and would like to keep it. I also don't want to do a clean install from the OS restore DVD as I feel sure that my One is not 'broken' enough to justify that. What stops a repair is my TOTAL LACK of Linux experience and a lack of familiarity with the command line approach.

So what I'd like is a SIMPLE step by step guide showing me how I can get back to my original Firefox V2 web browser via the Browser icon. I imagine the Firefox V2 code is still there on my HD somewhere but of course my 'upgrade' attempt may well have deleted it but I have no way of telling. I did try /opt/firefox/firefox from 'Terminal – user@localhost' but it returned the message “No such file or directory”.

For now I will leave the move to Firefox V3 to future editions of Acer's Live Update scheme. Ideally the repair process should be such that I can copy and paste any command line code I'm given in to the appropriate part of the One's utilities: - terminal, Xfce or whatever. If the process could be copied to a USB stick from my other PC and then run automatically by the Aspire One so much the better.


Thanks for your help.

Geoff

Following on from my post I decided I would try again so entered:

wget "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-US"

in to Terminal but got message: .......Resolving download.mozilla.org... 63.245.209.58 connecting to download.mozilla.org|63.245.209.58| :80.... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response.... 404 Not Found
18:03:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Not sure what this means.

Geoff

Easy way:
Go to http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_one_150.html
Download by Applications (firefox3.sh)
extract and install the patch
thats all

If I am in the USA can I use this patch??

Or alternatively... for people who don't want to dive in at the command line... acer provide a convenient update package that will install FF3 automatically -- you'll find it here: www.acer.com/aspireone/updates.

Well, finally got FF3 installed and WORKING, after changing the EXEC = to point to the proper location. Now, if I could only get the Java applet to start with my GOTOMYPC I would truly be happy. I've tried everything I've seen published plus following directions from the GOTOMYPC support people. Anyone got any ideas?
I would truly detest using Windows on my Aspire but it's how I work while away from the office; and I definitely DO NOT want to install a VPN client and a VNC viewer.
Otherwise, what a great little PC ! ! !

Hello there!

It worked perfectly with me. So good that I would like to know if I could translate to portuguese and publish in a friend's blog (with the according copyright and link to the original, of course).

Thanks!
Erick Pessôa

Can you believe it? My system just got updated by Acer and they reinstalled the OLD firefox!

Um, strange problem.

I thought I has followed your instructions to the letter. However, when I try to start firefox (any version, any method of starting) I get a warning.
It is headlined "Close Firefox"
The body text is flanked by a diamond containing a question mark and tells me; "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

I can't find any evidence that Firefox is running and restarting the computer doesn't help.

Any idea what I have done wrong? Any suggested fix?

cheers, Geraint.

Ignore the above post - fixed it.

Thanks for the guidance.

Geraint.

You're my hero of the day. Please consider a donation link or a free beer next time you visit Uppsala, Sweden.

Thanks!
-K

Re: this post
Um, strange problem.

I thought I has followed your instructions to the letter. However, when I try to start firefox (any version, any method of starting) I get a warning.
It is headlined "Close Firefox"
The body text is flanked by a diamond containing a question mark and tells me; "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

I can't find any evidence that Firefox is running and restarting the computer doesn't help.

Any idea what I have done wrong? Any suggested fix?

cheers, Geraint.

How did u fix this problem man. Im having the same problem right now???

Awesome post - seem to have worked fine for me just by cutting and pasting
Andy

Worked great, icons and all! Having a hard time setting it as my default browser, however (FF2 is currently set). Sorry, I'm dumb.

hey thnks for the browser..but im havin problms.....the link on the desktop wont open..it'll just show tht timer thing and thn stop as if nothin happnd.....if i launch it thru alt+f2 firefox 2 opens.....sumtymes firefox 3 opens if i launch thru its folder, but now whnvr it opens it gets stuck...i tried reinstalling, but same problem...help please..

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im having the same problem as this posted by a few other guys on here. Is there a solution????


Re: this post
Um, strange problem.


I thought I has followed your instructions to the letter. However, when I try to start firefox (any version, any method of starting) I get a warning.
It is headlined "Close Firefox"
The body text is flanked by a diamond containing a question mark and tells me; "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

I can't find any evidence that Firefox is running and restarting the computer doesn't help.

Any idea what I have done wrong? Any suggested fix?

cheers, Geraint.

How did u fix this problem man. Im having the same problem right now???


Bill

I've successfully installed FF3 as per your instructions - thanks for these. However, Thunar Help continues to access FF2 (if FF3 is not running). When it does, FF2 checks plug-ins etc. then launches. On resuming FF3 it does the same. So
1) there's no danger of conflict between FF2 and FF3 is there?
2) can I get Thunar (and perhaps other built-in helps that access the internet) to use FF3 by default (it is already set as the main browser).

For those of you considering downloading the .firefox3.sh from acer, be advised that you get google toolbar into the bargain whether you want it or not. It refuses to be uninstalled or even inaktivated so to all intents and purposes it is a virus,

Thank you very much. I just followed your instructions to the letter as a Linux ignorant and BINGO I now have Firefox 3, even its logo on my desktop...and everything else works. Thanks once more Macles

hi thanks for all the post, somehow or rather, lost the firefox3 on home desktop. how 2 recover it again. sudo mousepad /usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop

Icon=firefox.png

tq

thank you so much! followed ur instruction(copied & pasted) and every thing run smoothly. I have installed it in less than 10 minutes. Thanks for the great help!!!
Ilmaormaa

Hi
this worked but I cannot bookmark anything. once I save a bookmark, it disappears after a restart?

Two questions:

1) I've already installed FF3 using the 'official' Acer download. If I now want to install it using the macles method (which I'd like to do to get the update facility) can I expect problems because of the previous update? Do I need to uninstall anything first?

2) The current version of Firefox (ignoring the new beta) is 3.0.7. If I adjust the macles script to get this version (the filename with 3.0.7 certainly exists on the Firefox site), will the script work equally well? I think it should, but I'd like to check before I download.

Hi,

I installed the update in an attempt to fix a problem with Firefox crashing. Everything worked fine and FF3 loads from the new icon(a big thank you), except that the crashes persist. FF crashes occur just as one tab has loaded and the second nears the end of its download period.

The Firefox notification went off, but si there anything I could do in the short term.

aaargh,
did this and now the acer has no more wireless (and yes, I tried the little switch),
systems no longer offers "add new software" and terminal keeps telling me:
"-bash: sudo: command not found"

system reinstall?

guy

Hi!

Thanks for all the great advice - I've got Firefox 3.0.8 running on my Linpus Lite Acer One at the mo.

The only problem is that I can no longer watch videos on websites such as Youtube.

It says that I need to download Flash Player - that would be easy enough on a system running Windows, but I'm afraid I get rather lost when attempting to do this.

I'd be grateful for any help in getting vids to work again.

Worked 1st time! Spot on!

Worked 1st time! Spot on!
....spoke to soon!

I'm finding that some links (i.e. the search bar from the Aspire desktop tool/start screen) and Acrobat are still linked to the old 2.0.0.14 version.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Tony

this was fab and worked very easily. well done and big thanks sir

"
Just use the following command.

sudo ln -fs /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
"

excellent...worked fine...after a quick reboot...the only setting still linked to the old version (that i've found so far) is in the Adobe Acrobat reader v8 preferences pointing to this:

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14

Even though I've worked with unix for a few years, i'm not yet used to the underlying directories of linux...

so...suggestions for what to update this to?

Thanks again
Tony

Fine...thanks for the advice.

As a side subject, I've been looking into antivirus for this...and, yes, I know linux isn't particularly vulnerable, but being used to windows am still itching to install something...is there a thread on this site somewhere regarding this (rather than posting here) as I've found this: http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en--BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html
but unsure as to whether its suitable?

thanks
Tony

When i paste the bit for the plug-ins it says this is not a directory
any ideas?

Hi,
I have a problem....maybe it is trivial, but I' not fixing it. After typing:

sudo tar -jxf firefox-3.0.9.tar.bz2 --directory /opt

the system answer is:

tar: You must specify one of the '-Acdtrux' option
Could you please help me?

Perfection! I'm a total noob although generally feel comfortable with computers. I was a little nervous but I dove in and it all worked perfectly. Faster than previous version and pages render better (anyone else experience tons of white space at the top of Facebook profiles? Updated firefox renders them correctly and resolves this). Was also able to use automatic update to get 3.0.10 Thanks!

hi, I'm having trouble with getting messenger to work after the firefox 3 update, when I click on the messenger icon it does nothing it doesn't even show any signs that its trying to load, the email client doesn't work either, other then those 2 programs not working everything runs fine including firefox itself so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance

chris s, my laptop (aspire one linux) does this regulary the only cure i have found so far is resetting it, with the disc that came with it

hi

i've a complete novice, ive tried to follow the above instructions but i think i've not quite understood this step

"Launch the profile manager using the command below. Create a new profile, name it anything you like and select it. If you want to keep your bookmarks export them via the bookmark manager first. You can then delete the old default profile.

firefox -profilemanager -no-remote"

How exactly do i create a new profile? name it? select it? then delete the old profile?

thank you in advance :)

Worked fine for me so far, thanks for the post.

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH - you're an absolute start :-)

i'm using the the netbook now with firefox3 to type this, i think i had tried to be smart but hadn't actually downloaded firefox3 (thought i'd downloaded the english uk version which clearly i hadnt) but i just thought cut and paste exactly what you wrote and it has worked without a prob, now gonna try to download and install VLC

BTW with ff3 when I log into secure accounts there's not lock on the address bar like with ff2 but all the security settings seem to be on, i can assume it's still safe to use e.g. paypal etc?

Great tutorial. Thanks.

This works for Firefox 3.5 too. Just substitute firefox-3.5 for firefox-3.0.9 in the above instructions

excellent! so easy. thanks!!

macles is the any way i can find out where firefox was saved to??

Is it quite safe to do this for 3.5 if you'd already updated to 3.0.3 via Acer Live Update...?

Thanks.

Worked first time with no problems,
Cheers

my live update is showing up-to-date but yahoo page shows get firefox3
how i know which Firefox version i got
help me plz

"It's safe, yes. You can also skip creating a new profile in that case. "

Fabby doo, worked as advertised. Thanks for that. Now... Open Office, stick or twist... hmmmm.

Cheers,
David

Thanks a lot for that. It worked perfectly first time.

Cheers,

Ade.

Thanks for the great post. It worked smoothly and perfectly on one of my two AAO 110 twins and works great.

Unfortunately, I had a strange problem on the second AAO. Both have Linpus as OS but on this second one I use KDE 3.5 as desktop manager. Installation went fine but when I start Firefox, it opens, begins loading the home page and suddenly freezes. I can't do anything or try any settings other than (trying to) kill the process. The strange part is that I had Firefox 3.0.3 installed before upgrading to 3.5 and it worked fine. Also, the other web browser embedded in KDE 3.5 (Konqueror, that I don't like) still works fine.
I repeated the installation three times to make sure that the file downloaded was not corrupt and that I ahd not missed any line of command in the procedure. I tried installation both in Xfce session and in KDE session. Same result: Firefox freezes on startup.

Sorry for the long description, I was not able to better summarize...
Could anyone provide me with suggestions or possible remedies?

Cheers,
Franco

THNX ! Great Stuff !

This is awesome FF3.5 installed in 5 minutes ;-) and with new icon sweet.

Thanks

I have upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and still have the Mail/RSS working, however when I click a link in an email or RSS feed it doesn't do anything. It used to jump straight to the internet browser for that site/article.

Have I missed something when upgrading to Firefox 3.5?

thanks! just got an AA1, and installed FF3.5 with no problems! great resource, please keep it up

Thanks Macles. Successfully installed Firefox 3.5.1 using your instructions. Absolutely no problems at all following your guides.

Thanks! Firefox 3.5.1 installed.

I have the same problem as someone else where both 3.5 and 3.5.1 freezes on startup when trying to bring up a page. Running FireFox through the command line I get someone glibc invalid pointer exceptions and then it freezes. Anyone resolve this? I have the pretty much standard installation with Open Office and before Firefox 3.0.8 which worked fine.

Thanks

Like everybody else, thanks for this info.

Linux users are great people and tremendously helpful but they often are hard for us newbies to understand.

You, in contrast, were perfectly easy to follow! Thanks so much. My old version of Firefox was crashing a lot -- especially on media files.

Thanks again.

I'm gonna bookmark your blog, for sure.

Macles, you are amazing!


I am a total linux beginner,having had windows all my life and only got this netbook a couple of days ago. Ive heard such good things that ive decided to stick with linux and make it work for me. People like you help my transition go all that bit smoother. Easy to follow tutorials like this allow us to use out netbooks to their full potential. As time goes on i hope to understand words like rpm, kernal, sudo etc,

Thanks again, all went perfectly

Fionnuala in Ireland x

Its ridiculous that uninstalling firefox should try and uninstall xfce or other components. The way that Yum calculates dependencies is seriously wack. But thanks for the tip ;-)

You are the man.
thanks for your continuous help.

I've had my AA1 for a couple of months & am running ff3.5.2 & thunderbird all thanks to 'macles'. My problem is I've suddenly lost Adobe. When I try to open a .pdf file I get the Adobe 8 initialisation screen, which asks me to accept the licence agreement. I do - & nothing happens.
I still seem to have Adobe tucked away in a folder but as a complete linux novice I don't know how to get it to work. Help please, I can't read my .pdf files

David

Hi, the download link for Firefox 3.5.2 needs updating. The new link is:

http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5.2&os=linux&lang=en-US

Regards,

Ian

Sorry, I forgot to say thanks for this excellent guide.

Hello Macles,

I've installed Firefox 3.5.2 on my AA1 in a different dir in case something went wrong (usr/bin/firefox352/firefox). The new browser is working fine, but I have to use the file manager to start the new Firefos. In fact the icon on my desktop is not connected. How can I connect the Icon to the right version / dir?

Regards, Jan

Great!! Thank you

i want to change easy peasy from linpus
does same update instructions will work
they don't have update in firefox3
can you help

Thank you so much for this. Like so many others I found running Firefox 2 very frustrating and some sites wouldn't load correctly. Just followed your instructions, which were so straightforward and now I'm up and running on 3.5.2.

WORKED 100%

I wish i found this like 5 months ago i've been trying to update it ever time i've been on my netbook

cheers

Excellent, worked first time (and I'm not very technical)

Thank you!!!

Big big thanks from a clueless linux user!

I copied & pasted everything to the letter & it worked! So happy now :)