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   John Forkosh to All   
   upgradepkg --reinstall mozilla-firefox d   
   09 Sep 23 08:38:33   
   
   From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   I have a slackware64-current installed from 2023-Feb-07,   
   running mozilla-firefox-109.0.1-x86_64-1.txz as originally   
   installed at that time. And that's been working just fine.   
   But a site said it's an old browser that they won't be   
   supporting much longer.   
      
   So I downloaded mozilla-firefox-115.0-x86_64-1.txz   
   back on 2023-Jul-06, and just got around to   
     upgradepkg --reinstall mozilla-firefox-115.0-x86_64-1.txz   
   which seemed to work, i.e., the messages said it reinstalled   
   the package. And firefox came up when executed,   
   and Help-->About_Firefox said it was 115. But then, when I tried   
   loading a page from a site, it just sat there and did nothing.   
      
   I played around with it for a while, but got nowhere.   
   So I then went back to the old package with   
     upgradepkg --reinstall mozilla-firefox-109.0.1-x86_64-1.txz   
   and that now correctly works just as it's been working since   
   originally installed.   
      
   So what did I do wrong, and how do I upgrade firefox   
   so that it actually works?   
   --   
   John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )   
      
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