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Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old mother
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MEPIS Rules!   Joined: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:05 pm Posts: 167 Location: Oklahoma, USA Has thanked: 9 times Have thanks: 3 times 
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 Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old motherMy mother is 94 and has been using Mepis for several years. I left her on 8.0 familiarity purposes. She checks her email, does a little web surfing, and does her banking and bill paying. She got on today to pay her phone bill and got a message that her web browser, FF 3 was no longer accepted. I checked synaptic and there is no upgrade available. After a little forum searching it looks like Lenny and hence Mepis 8.0 is no longer supported. I really hate to take her into unfamiliar territory at this point. I did find a sort of related thread in which there was a comment (from Stevo??) that suggested enabling 8.5 repositories and just upgrading what was needed for Firefox. I tried that and still there is no Firefox upgrade showing.
What might be the simplest course at this point. |
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| Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:32 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9169 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2711 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 296189
Re: Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old mother Thought about trying Opera? I doubt that Chrome or Chromium would work. But a different Browser would be what I'd suggest.
Also you might try the add-ons that switch agents. User Agent Switcher is one. Also Super User Agent. Just bring up the add-ons and enter system agent or user agent for a list. _________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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| Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:56 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast 
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Re: Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old mother
In a Mepis 8.0 LiveISO session I'm able to install the Firefox 10 that Stevo built for M8.5 by adding the following repos:
Mark firefox for upgrade, also mark the libgtk2.0-common package for upgrade. Here's the Synaptic summary:
Disable/delete the M8.5 repos that you added after you've upgraded to firefox 10. |
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| Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:09 pm |
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MEPIS Rules! Joined: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:05 pm Posts: 167 Location: Oklahoma, USA Has thanked: 9 times Have thanks: 3 times
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Post # 296207
Re: Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old mother Thanks for the help. I had missed deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis85cr test
Got it installed and she is checking her bills on line. THANKS a million. |
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| Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:58 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7354 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1185 times
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Re: Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old mother There's going to be a security update to 10.0.2 for the Firefox version in 8.5 testing in a day or so. I've done the 64-bit build and hope to get the 32-bit done tonight, so be prepared for it.
_________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:55 pm |
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MEPIS is cool! 
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Re: Firefox 10, Mepis 8.0, 94 year old mother
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