Firefox 46.0 UI issues

[urdrwho5]

Thanks.

Before looking at your answer I decided to create a new profile and then move existing extensions, etc. to it. Then I tried to get some new themes and it worked.

But your suggestion was also needed to set the browser app, HTTP / HTTPS association to Fire Fox. So your suggestion was needed to make everything correct.

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Go to Settings -> System Settings -> Applications -> Web Browser and check what it's pointing to.

[Qqmike]

Package: libgtk-3-0 Version: 3.10.8-0ubuntu1.6

Same here (on K14.04).

[SecretCode]

Package: libgtk-3-0               
Version: 3.10.8-0ubuntu1.6

[WaltS48]

Everyone has GTK+ 3.4 or higher on their systems?

Firefox — 46.0 System Requirements — Mozilla

[elijathegold]

Go to Settings -> System Settings -> Applications -> Web Browser and check what it's pointing to.

[urdrwho5]

Now that I installed the DEB of 45.0.2 and have it running there is a problem. If I go to try and download a new KDE theme, I receive a message that it can't start firefox in the download directory.

Before installing FF I had unzipped a Bz2 file of and placed the uncompressed folder in downloads. I would just go there and run the executable to start FF. Then I did put an icon in the tray (show a launcher when not running). When I installed FF the correct way I deleted the FF folder in downloads.

FF starts fine from the application launcher but someplace it still think FF should be in the download folder. Any ideas?

[elijathegold]

I may have answered both of these with further research. Breeze is the default theme for Plasma 5 and Oxygen is for KDE/Plasma 4 - right?

Breeze is the default with Plasma 5 and I think Oyxgen was the default previously.

[SecretCode]

I couldn't find any Firefox or GTK themes with breeze in the name. Would this be something new and not available on 14.04?

Is oxygen as a theme unpopular and unmaintained?

I may have answered both of these with further research. Breeze is the default theme for Plasma 5 and Oxygen is for KDE/Plasma 4 - right?

[SecretCode]

I'm very late to this thread. At first, thought it was just another thread on more whining over a FF update.

What do you take me for?

[SecretCode]

Firefox 46 looks OK on 16.04 using the breeze themes.

I couldn't find any Firefox or GTK themes with breeze in the name. Would this be something new and not available on 14.04?

I'm running 14.04. GTK3-theme was oxygen.gtk. Tooltips on Firefox 46 were completely black. Checkboxes on sites invisible. Etc. I tried several themes: all the same.
I changed the GTK3-theme to Default, and now everything is visible. But the appearance - only in Firefox - looks like Windows 95. Really ugly.
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With the default theme the sites are looking good (except buttons). Only menus etc. are really ugly.

I've tried Adwaita and Default and Uncomplicated gtk3 themes. They are all more consistent and issue-free compared to oxygen-gtk ... but uuugly. Not like Windows 95 ... like Gnome!

Is oxygen as a theme unpopular and unmaintained?

[urdrwho5]

Thanks

That worked.

I should have thought of it myself. duh!

I've locked FF at 45.02.

Change into the directory where the packages were saved to; should be Downloads. Then run the commands.

[Snowhog]

Change into the directory where the packages were saved to; should be Downloads. Then run the commands.

[urdrwho5]

Thanks for those links.

I am having a problem with the command lines. I receive errors

dpkg: error processing firefox_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing firefox-locale-en_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firefox_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
 firefox-locale-en_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb

Can I just click on the DEB file and let the Qatp package installer do it for me?

The following is from post #19 by Snowhog. I just got the links to the actual downloads to simplify things and removed references to firefox_locale_de (presuming you only have the English language version installed).

Download the following two deb files (this is for the English language version of FF45 for 12.04):

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozill...04.1_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozill...04.1_amd64.deb

Next, execute the following three lines:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all firefox firefox-locale-en

sudo dpkg -i --force-all firefox_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb firefox-locale-en_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb

sudo apt-mark hold firefox firefox-locale-en

Note that the above is only for 12.04. It will need to be modified for any other version (14.04, 16.04, etc).

[Qqmike]

errata ... Re my Post #22: To save a vid, for example, rt-click and Save Link As, a window pops up, and in that window you see your file system and you navigate to the folder where you want to save the vid/pic/whatever. That window that pops up for navigating is a FF window, not a Dolphin window (as I said above). Tried it again this morning, same issue: click and click and click and it doesn't respond properly to quickly navigate to the folder you wish to get to, it "fights you." But you can and will succeed if you fight back

[Rod J]

How to downgrade to FF45 from FF46

Wish I could get FF 45 back into the repository. I have FF running but it is through an uncompressed FF in a folder. It runs but is it running like it should be if properly installed from a repository. Using this manner of running FF I can't start it in profile mode or safe mode.

The following is from post #19 by Snowhog. I just got the links to the actual downloads to simplify things and removed references to firefox_locale_de (presuming you only have the English language version installed).

Download the following two deb files (this is for the English language version of FF45 for 12.04):

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozill...04.1_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozill...04.1_amd64.deb

Next, execute the following three lines:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all firefox firefox-locale-en

sudo dpkg -i --force-all firefox_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb firefox-locale-en_45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb

sudo apt-mark hold firefox firefox-locale-en

Note that the above is only for 12.04. It will need to be modified for any other version (14.04, 16.04, etc).