From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   John Forkosh  wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   Some additional googling solved the problem...   
      (a) downloaded script  latest-firefox.sh   
          from https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672798   
      (b) then ran the script to create   
          mozilla-firefox-117.0-x86_64-1ro.tgz   
      (c) then, as root, ran   
          upgradepkg --install-new mozilla-firefox-117.0-x86_64-1ro.tgz   
   Now everything works with the new firefox 117.   
   Hmm... was my problem above that I used --reinstall   
   rather than --install-new as used here?   
   --   
   John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )   
      
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