Problems installing Firefox 3.5 on ubuntuzilla

Dear all,

I'm just a newbie towards ubuntu linux, after looking through the web for update procedure of Firefox, I've manage to found this ubuntuzilla helps to update firefox. But according to the forum, I have to install a whole new firefox 3.5, I couldn't upgrade from my existing 3.0 to 3.5.

I'll list down the error that I've encountered while I'm doing my installation.

Errors:

Making sure that the repositories version of Firefox is installed...

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done firefox is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

Backing up old Firefox preferences

cp: cannot open /home/<myname>/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/InstallTime20090729211829' for reading: Permission denied cp: cannot open /home/<myname>/.mozilla/firefox/vsx4sm17.default/flashgot.log.bak' for reading: Permission denied cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_backup_$(date -Iseconds) Failed to back up profile. Process returned code 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 1294, in <module> bs.start() File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 300, in start fi.start() File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 343, in start self.install() File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 744, in install self.backupProfile() File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 906, in backupProfile self.util.execSystemCommand(executionstring="cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_backup_$(date -Iseconds)", errormessage="Failed to back up profile.") File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 143, in execSystemCommand raise SystemCommandExecutionError, "Command has not completed successfully. If this problem persists, please seek help at our website, " + self.version.url __main__.SystemCommandExecutionError: Command has not completed successfully. If this problem persists, please seek help at our website, http://ubuntuzilla.sourceforge.net/ ________________________________________________________________________

Hopefully someone can help me out here. Thank you for your patient!

Hi it appears that the permissions on your firefox profile got messed up. probably because you ran firefox as root (with sudo) at some point before.

So, run the following commands to get stuff back in order:

sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername ~/.mozilla
sudo chmod -R u+r ~/.mozilla

replace 'yourusername' with your actual username, of course.

then run ubuntuzilla again.

Hey nanotube,

Thank you for your assistant. I really appreciate it and it works like a charm! I hope this will be an assistant towards those people who has manually upgraded their FireFox to 3.5.:lolflag:

By the way, I've noticed a couple changes has been made on 3.5, but i realized that the surfing is a lot slower when it comes to ads. Especially when i login my yahoo mail (new interface), it will cost my firefox to hang.

I was just curious if anyone have the same problem that I'm facing? Thank you and hope to hear from any of you soon!

p/s: anyway, love ubuntu due to the support community!:KS

glad to see that it worked :)

as far as ads are concerned, I highly recommend the adblock plus extension, along with the easylist blocklist subscription:

http://adblockplus.org/

http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

hope that helps. :)