firefox does not work after update

Hi,
When you updated centOS 5 packages, there is a possibility that current firefox 3.0 installed in your system will not work.

Here is what you need to do:

1) go to terminal window and type

$firefox

You should see, a message like this one,

Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b5pre and 1.9b5pre

It can also be like,

Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b5 and 1.9b5pre

When you get such a kind of error, do this.

2) get latest version of firefox at www.firefox.com

3) go to location where you downloaded the tar.bz2

4) tar -xvjf firefox*.tar.bz2
Here firefox* means it can be firefox-3.5.3 or any other.

5) this will create a folder with name firefox into your current folder.

6) you can transfer all contents from firefox folder into a new folder in /usr/lib.

$cd /usr/lib/
$mkdir firefox
$cd firefox
$mv path/to/firefox/tar/extracted/location .

7) once all files are copied to new /usr/lib/firefox/ , do the following

$pwd
/usr/lib/firefox/
$./firefox-bin

8) this will open a new window and will tell you about update of any existing plugin

9) click update to update all plugins.

10) once plugins are installed,firefox browser will open and ask to set it as default browser.

11) make firefox your default browser.

12) close firefox browser and go back to terminal. You will get a prompt back once firefox brower gets closed.

13) exit the terminal.

You are done!

Go to applictions->internet->mozilla firefox browser and it will open up for you.

In my case, the old bookmarks in firefox were restored. So, there is no problem.

Milan Pandya