I recently re-installed 13.1 and message on my firefox home page says I’m not on the latest version but when i click ‘upgrade today’ it says I’m using the latest version and ‘about Mozilla’ says version 31, but It doesn’t look like the latest version, none of the ‘stylish’ themes work properly & haven’t had any firefox updates for a while?? Only have the official openSUSE repos.
For later builds, subscribe to the Mozilla repo.
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#Mozilla
But Firefox 31 is the latest version.
At least that’s what you get when you click on mozilla.org’s download link.
If you want to install a later version, you have to add the mozilla:beta repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla:/beta/openSUSE_13.1/
But be aware that this contains the latest beta version, as the name implies.
This might not be stable.
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 09:06:01 PM CDT, Sosaidh wrote:
I recently re-installed 13.1 and message on my firefox home page says
I’m not on the latest version but when i click ‘upgrade today’ it says
I’m using the latest version and ‘about Mozilla’ says version 31, but It
doesn’t look like the latest version, none of the ‘stylish’ themes work
properly & haven’t had any firefox updates for a while?? Only have the
official openSUSE repos.
Hi
When you re-installed, you kept your /home directory?
If so, then maybe it’s an error down in the ~/.mozilla directory. You
could create a test user and login to see if it looks right there, else
make a backup of your bookmarks and then shutdown firefox and open a
terminal and run;
cd
mv .mozilla .backup_mozilla
exit
Then restart firefox and see how that goes, if all ok, then import you
bookmarks and carry on…
If you have saved passwords etc your wanting kept, then there maybe a
method to clean up the mozilla directory?
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Thanks for swift replies, apologies for only looking at this thread again now, posted here last night then opened another tab and tried to sign in to Twitter, which for some reason, totally freezes whole system, nothing works not even Ctrl Alt F1, F4 or Delete so hit the power button and quit for the night:/ its only trying to sign into twitter that this happens and only on my desktop, works fine on my laptop…anyhow guess that’s another thread.
@Deano_Ferrari
For later builds, subscribe to the Mozilla repo.
Had been thinking of adding this repo but read lots of warnings about adding repos that you don’t need and like Wolfi323 says
But be aware that this contains the latest beta version, as the name implies.
This might not be stable.
@malcomlewis
cd
mv .mozilla .backup_mozilla
exit
tried a new user and the code you suggested but neither changed anything. What’s confusing me is that message on home page says i haven’t got the latest version and to upgrade but when i check it says i’m running Firefox 31 which like Wolfi323 says IS the latest. I have openSUSE 13.1 on my laptop as well and its also running firefox 31 which looks and behaves very differently to how it is on desktop. It’s like even though system says i’ve the latest i don’t.
Hm, I don’t have that here, with Firefox 31 from the standard update repo.
Maybe you have a mixture of package versions installed?
rpm -qa | grep -i mozilla
Did you try to install Firefox manually at some point?
There could be remnants of that old version that are still in use now.
Try to run Firefox in “safe mode”, maybe some addon is causing this?
firefox -safe-mode
On 2014-08-15 12:26, Sosaidh wrote:
> tried a new user and the code you suggested but neither changed
> anything. What’s confusing me is that message on home page says i
> haven’t got the latest version and to upgrade but when i check it says
> i’m running Firefox 31 which like Wolfi323 says IS the latest. I have
> openSUSE 13.1 on my laptop as well and its also running firefox 31 which
> looks and behaves very differently to how it is on desktop. It’s like
> even though system says i’ve the latest i don’t.
You said you reinstalled the system. How was that?
My suspicion is that you somehow have old components in the system.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Maybe you have a mixture of package versions installed?
rpm -qa | grep -i mozilla
mozilla-nss-certs-3.16.3-27.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-3.16.3-27.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-translations-common-31.0-33.1.x86_64
ca-certificates-mozilla-1.97-3.12.1.noarch
mozilla-kde4-integration-0.6.4-4.1.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-21-2.1.2.x86_64
mozilla-nspr-4.10.6-12.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-31.0-33.1.x86_64
When i ran it in safe mode it was the same ‘you’re not on the latest version’
@Robin_listas
You said you reinstalled the system. How was that?
I’d messed up things by doing zypper dup when i shouldn’t have so decided to start again and used DVD from ISO downloaded at the beginning of 13.1 to do a fresh install, have updated everything added packman and libdvdcss been running for about a week and no new updates available and everything good apart from mozilla version and twitter freeze.
My suspicion is that you somehow have old components in the system.
Also installed 13.1 for a friend couple of months ago and she has same problem with firefox, that install was from a dvd iso downloaded more recently, her laptop came with windows 7 and she wanted something more secure, so would there be old components in the system in this case too? should i uninstall everything mozilla and reinstall?
Thanks for help:)
Looks ok.
When i ran it in safe mode it was the same ‘you’re not on the latest version’
Hm. As I said, I cannot reproduce that here. And I have the same packages installed:
http://susepaste.org/images/45157201.png
So I take it you did not download/install Firefox from somewhere else (mozilla’s homepage e.g.) at any point?
Could you maybe post a screenshot of that message?
Maybe it’s a problem with the (localized) Mozilla page?
So what URL have actually open in the browser when you get that message?
Also installed 13.1 for a friend couple of months ago and she has same problem with firefox, that install was from a dvd iso downloaded more recently, her laptop came with windows 7 and she wanted something more secure, so would there be old components in the system in this case too?
Unlikely, if all updates were installed.
should i uninstall everything mozilla and reinstall?
No. I doubt that would help.
Wolfi323
So I take it you did not download/install Firefox from somewhere else (mozilla’s homepage e.g.) at any point?
No, only from repos since running 13.1 strange thing is, before i re-installed, firefox was version 31 and no problems.
Could you maybe post a screenshot of that message?
sorry, took a screen shot but no URL to post image from, don’t know how?
So what URL have actually open in the browser when you get that message?
http://www.google.ie/firefox?gws_rd=cr&ei=KdPtU79Uh6_sBoXYgMAO
much appreciate the help
On 2014-08-15 23:36, Sosaidh wrote:
>
> @Wolfi323
>> Maybe you have a mixture of package versions installed?
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> rpm -qa | grep -i mozilla
> mozilla-nss-certs-3.16.3-27.1.x86_64
> mozilla-nss-3.16.3-27.1.x86_64
> MozillaFirefox-translations-common-31.0-33.1.x86_64
> ca-certificates-mozilla-1.97-3.12.1.noarch
> mozilla-kde4-integration-0.6.4-4.1.1.x86_64
> MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-21-2.1.2.x86_64
> mozilla-nspr-4.10.6-12.1.x86_64
> MozillaFirefox-31.0-33.1.x86_64
>
>
> --------------------
Those are the same I have.
> When i ran it in safe mode it was the same ‘you’re not on the latest
> version’
What URL are you browsing when you see that?
The message is that in English, or in another language?
> @Robin_listas
>> You said you reinstalled the system. How was that?
> I’d messed up things by doing zypper dup when i shouldn’t have so
> decided to start again and used DVD from ISO downloaded at the beginning
> of 13.1 to do a fresh install, have updated everything added packman and
> libdvdcss been running for about a week and no new updates available and
> everything good apart from mozilla version and twitter freeze.
Ok… seems right. Any, post your repository list. Ok, please run this
command in a terminal:
zypper lr --details
and paste it all here, from initial command prompt, to last command
prompt, in a single mouse sweep, and please do so inside code tags (the
‘#’ button in the forum editor).
See photo
My suspicion is that you somehow have old components in the system.
Also installed 13.1 for a friend couple of months ago and she has same
problem with firefox, that install was from a dvd iso downloaded more
recently, her laptop came with windows 7 and she wanted something more
secure, so would there be old components in the system in this case too?
should i uninstall everything mozilla and reinstall?
If she has the same problem, then there is something in common on both
systems. Something you do on install or configuration. But it can also
be that you use the same language and the translation has errors.
So one thing to do would be to run firefox in English - I think this
would be the trick:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 firefox
If you are already using it in English (USA locale) then I guessed wrong 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Upload it to an image sharing site and post a link here, maybe via the image button in the toolbar.
http://www.google.ie/firefox?gws_rd=cr&ei=KdPtU79Uh6_sBoXYgMAO
much appreciate the help
But that is some Google page.
It tells me that I am not using the latest Firefox version when I open it in Konqueror, too… 
(but also with Firefox 31)
I would say this is a problem with this page.
Go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ and see what this one from mozilla says…
On 2014-08-16 00:56, Sosaidh wrote:
> http://www.google.ie/firefox?gws_rd=cr&ei=KdPtU79Uh6_sBoXYgMAO
> much appreciate the help
IF you click on the upgrade link, the mozilla says that you really are
on the latest version.
So that page is wrong.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Right.
And I tried now with a freshly installed Firefox 31 on Windows (where no Firefox was installed before), and that page said I’m not using the latest version even there…
Do you have java and javascript turned off in Firefox?
Or, scripts blocked?
No.
This was a fresh, standard Firefox installation without any changes to the settings, on a Windows system that’s quite fresh as well and never saw any Firefox.
But the same thing happens with Firefox in Linux anyway, that’s what this thread is about.
Have you tried, too?
To avoid a misunderstanding, it’s this page that reports it wrong:
http://www.google.ie/firefox?gws_rd=cr&ei=KdPtU79Uh6_sBoXYgMAO
The Mozilla page correctly reports I am using the latest version on Windows and openSUSE.
On 2014-08-16 11:26, wolfi323 wrote:
>
> Fraser_Bell;2659501 Wrote:
>> Do you have java and javascript turned off in Firefox?
>>
>> Or, scripts blocked?
> No.
> This was a fresh, standard Firefox installation without any changes to
> the settings, on a Windows system that’s quite fresh as well and never
> saw any Firefox.
Java is not installed by default on Windows, you add it yourself later,
same as most things.
> But the same thing happens with Firefox in Linux anyway, that’s what
> this thread is about.
Right. Anyway, I noticed my java was non-working here, so I reactivated
it, restarted FF, and… same problem, so java is not the culprit.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I know.
But I cannot imagine this site using Java to get the browser version.
Also if a Java applet cannot be started you should somewhere see anything to that effect, like a blank applet rectangle.
And yes, I did/do have Java enabled and working in Linux, and in that Windows installation as well.
Oh, yes. See, I have never gone to google.ie before in my lifetime. I just kicked in a suggestion, because I have seen the lack of correct detection at different sites due to not having javascript enabled, for example.