Firefox and Timidity

[Les Gray]

On Friday 31 August 2007 07:54:55 Andre Mangan wrote:
> Firefox version 1.5.0.12 used in Ubuntu 6.06 fails to display the Timidity
> GUI whenever a midi file is accessed on the web or from the home directory
> making closure of that file impossible while in the browser.  Galeon web
> browser does not suffer from this handicap; it displays the Timidity GUI
> and midi files can therefore be terminated at will.
>
> I am curious to know if this problem exists for Firefox version 2.
>
> Cheers,
> Andre

I don't know if it does, but if you want to find out for yourself you can 
download the latest Firefox from getfirefox.com and install/unpack it into 
your /home directory . The version you already have installed can just be 
left where it is.

Back up your profile in ~/.mozilla as well because you'll need to temporarily 
delete that directory to run the new Firefox reliably (something to do with 
the difference in versions). Then start Firefox by going into the install 
directory and typing ./firefox

When you're done testing, just delete the Firefox install directory, replace 
your backed-up ~/.mozilla directory, and things will be as they were. Of 
course, if you're happy with the latest version you can always keep it. 
You'll have to set up all your addons and plugins manually, though, and 
turn /usr/bin/firefox into a symlink to the new version, rather than having 
to start it from a terminal.

This is what I did back in the days of Debian Sarge. The Firefox which shipped 
with that distro was prone to crashing, so I just did a /home dir install of 
whatever the latest one was.

Les