It sounds like when you do an upgrade, it is replacing libraries as such
like you would expect, but you aren't logging out and back in to make
sure your running software is using all the new stuff, so you are
getting strange/broken behavior.
I'm guessing that firefox was leaving at least one process open. It
might have even been semi crashed in the background, that was keeping
the new version from starting up, and with part of it's brains torn out
it wasn't allowing certain things to work correctly. After the reboot
everything was running with the new code, so the problem went away.
Brian Cluff
On 04/06/2013 05:10 PM,
joe@actionline.com wrote:
>
> After too much fiddling around, and reading lots of reports of
> similar problems with firefox from searching google, I even tried
> reinstalling firefox (with no success); and finally ended up
> rebooting which presented a long list of failed firefox addresses,
> and then after restarting firefox, it seems to be working okay (for
> the moment).
>
> Why does firefox keep changing things with resulting crashes and
> failures like this? I also notice that the instructions for
> disabling hardware acceleration has changed numerous times. Very
> frustrating!
>
>
> ---------
> [snipped]
>> Another related problem that I am now having is that many videos
>> that used to play fine with Firefox on my Linux Mint box no do not
>> work any more since the latest "update" just a couple days ago.
>>
>> For example: This video works fine on my kubuntu box
>> but does not work on my newly updated Linux Mint box.
>>
>> http://vimeo.com/48956391
>
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