I have Firefox downloaded for a while now, yet suddenly whenever I click on it now it does not run the file. What could I do? Thanks in advance 🙏
I have Firefox downloaded for a while now, yet suddenly whenever I click on it now it does not run the file. What could I do? Thanks in advance 🙏
Install it from your distro's repository, and if it even doesn't run, try to run from terminal for verbose error messages.
launch it via a terminal, look for error messages.
If it's not too much trouble, could I have videos or sources regarding this? Im not too skilled in linux yet, either way, thanks! I'm going to try this.
Haha
Open a terminal, type firefox and hit return. Look for error messages.
>Im not too skilled in linux yet
Then why did you download Firefox?
You need to install it, not just download it.
I've had it installed for a solid year, it was working perfectly fine but now it's not budging ;-;
Start with opening a terminal and issue the command which firefox You should see something similar to this
~ $ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
If you don't, show us what you do get. If you do then try firefox -safe-mode in the terminal and see if it starts.
And also please tell us which Linux distribution you are using (or type uname -a in a terminal and copy the output) because the advice may differ slightly.
Video help can be good but it does depend on what distribution you are using. As you haven't said yet you can find a selection by going to YouTube and putting "install firefox linux" in the search box and see if something comes up that matches your Linux.
Okay, you've got it fixed, that's great. Linking to the fix was also a nice touch.
However, when you're here asking for support, there are some best practices. Note that you were asked more than once to try to invoke it from the terminal and report the error messages. Why was this not done?