Can't get multiple versions of Firefox or Chrome to run

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Can't get multiple versions of Firefox or Chrome to run

Post#1 by rchase » 22 Sep 2017, 18:19

Starting with Porteus-XFCE-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso burned to CD, I cannot seem to get Firefox or Chrome to function either by activating previously downloaded copies or by update-firefox and update-chrome. I can activate (download, build, and activate) browser modules without errors, but firefox-54.0b7-x86_64-1.xzm (e.g.) doesn't populate the menu when activated (and startx doesn't help) -- I just attempted that as root, but I also cannot get google-chrome-61.0.3163.79-x86_64-1.xzm to work as guest. All the chrome modules I have tried do populate the menu -- they just don't function. I have verified that the modules are being activated; I am responding to confirmation dialogs and the modules are loaded when I check Porteus system info. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Since I am using this same image on several machines on which Firefox does work, I am baffled; the problem has occurred only in connection with the use of a live CD, but everything else about Porteus and its modules seems to work fine (I was able to activate and use Libre Office, e.g.).

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Can't get multiple versions of Firefox or Chrome to run

Post#2 by Ed_P » 22 Sep 2017, 21:46

Can you start Firefox by entering firefox in a terminal window?
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Post#3 by ncmprhnsbl » 22 Sep 2017, 22:25

these are known issues:
firefox xzm is building without /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop (it will start from the terminal) (yes, the build script needs to be fixed)
heres a firefox module with the .desktop file: firefox-56.0b10-x86_64-1-ncm.xzm
and new chromium (>61) needs a newer mozilla-nss package that is available from slackware-patches(via usm)
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Post#4 by Ed_P » 23 Sep 2017, 00:01

ncmprhnsbl wrote:
22 Sep 2017, 22:25
firefox xzm is building without /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop (it will start from the terminal) (yes, the build script needs to be fixed)
It could be because an update doesn't need to give a user another firefox.desktop file whereas a new install does.

If firefox starts via terminal one can create their own firefox.desktop file. :happy62:

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Post#5 by ncmprhnsbl » 23 Sep 2017, 01:45

Ed_P wrote:
23 Sep 2017, 00:01
It could be because an update doesn't need to give a user another firefox.desktop file whereas a new install does.
nope, i always run the update- script without a firefox module activated.. for some reason mozilla doesn't supply the .desktop file in there package..
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23 Sep 2017, 00:01
If firefox starts via terminal one can create their own firefox.desktop file.
absolutely, that's what i did :happy62:
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Post#6 by Ed_P » 23 Sep 2017, 04:32

ncmprhnsbl wrote:
23 Sep 2017, 01:45
for some reason mozilla doesn't supply the .desktop file in there package
:blink: Other systems use .desktop files also!! I thought they were only for Porteus.
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