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4.8.3 Upgrade to 4.9.2 Firefox?
« on: November 08, 2012, 10:13:19 AM »

Hi All,

Whilst upgrading from 4.8.3 to 4.9.2 everything has gone to plan? Well at first glance it does ! ! !

After rebooting , I find that Firefox browser which was v 16.0.1 and should be ver 16.0.2 has now been uninstalled.

Yes, you read that correctly. Completely removed.

After several attempts at updating Fireox thru' Synaptic I tried to download SeaMonkey from the repositories,
that borked also. So now I have no browser. ( I posted this from a friends M$Winow machine)

What to do?

You help would be very much appreciated.......

TIA
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Re: 4.8.3 Upgrade to 4.9.2 Firefox?
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2012, 10:21:21 AM »
I think you still have a decent browser called Konqueror on your system. Please check.

Synaptic has a item called History in its File menu. Please check that and see when was Firefox removed.
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Re: 4.8.3 Upgrade to 4.9.2 Firefox?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2012, 01:20:23 PM »
If you don't have Firefox now you should use Synaptic to install it, not update it.  What happens when you try to do that?  As a browser, Konqueror makes a good file manager.  Chromium has become a reasonable option if you can't use Firefox.

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Re: 4.8.3 Upgrade to 4.9.2 Firefox?
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2012, 01:28:06 PM »
Could also check that only one Repo is selected.

The Midori and Rekonq browsers are also worth a look.
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