any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

arghhh...:confused:

running os 2008 version 5.2008.43-7 the mozilla-firefox browser gives me redirect errors all the time ( havn't found a bug -fix yet).
how would i upgrade the browser ( firefox/3.0a1 tablet browser 0.3.7.)?


cheers again!

ps: is debian the lames distro around when it comes to recent apps?
compared to gentoo i'm afraid that's my first impression...

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

Do a forum search for Tear or webkit.

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

ok, upgrading to another engine did not work at all.
is there any way to update the microb-engine?

cheers!

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

No. (unless you compile something from SVN).

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

just a hunch but is tools|settings|conection| enable automatic redirection checked

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

The *exact* error code and message would also be nice.
E.g. if it's about infinite loops then the site is quite broken and I worked around it by changing two values in about:config.

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

smackpotato - youn were right - shame on me & thanks a lot!!!

Re: any way to upgrade the buggy firefox browser???
 

No, perhaps you're thinking of Softlanding or Yggdrasil? ;)

And you're not running Debian, either, you're running Maemo, which was forked from Debian, and in the interest of stability, has had some libraries, etc. held back versions, so you can't just install Debian packages (lenny is at 3.0.6-1). And a careful inspection of the browser would make it clear that it's not straightup Firefox (whereas Iceweasel is), but has modifications to make it work well with touch-only and limited screen space, so even switching to a Debian Firefox/Iceweasel build wouldn't necessarily be what you want. Still, you can try Qole's Easy Chroot stuff to run Debian apps, including IceWeasel, if you want to.