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Uma Mint comes on line

Discussion in 'General Linux Discussion' started by Daniel~, Jul 22, 2021.

  1. Daniel~

    Daniel~ Chief BBS Administrator Staff Member

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    Spent from Weds morning until Thursday morning trying to element a glaring flaw!

    Simply put if I install the new fire fox which identifies as firefox+1 Uma Firefox goes to sh**. becomes semi-transparent so everything is garbled.

    What took so long was having to use my back up drive to restore a half dozen times While trying to figure out which of the many many updates was screwing up Firefox.Big surprise, it was Firefox.!

    Conclusion:

    If you don't install the new Firefox, everything else is mint solid.
    And the existing Firefox works fine.

    I would diffidently advice against installing the new firefox for Uma unless you have a good recent backup or you can figure out how to straighten Uma Firefox out.

    Firefox presents so badly I could not see to work within Firefox to find a solution.

    Oh!
    I had trouble accessing this new release or even seeing it.Update manager kept telling me that I had no internet connection.

    What I had to do was change my repository download sites.After doing that a new "Update manager" is offered. Take it. after it installs Uma becomes possible! ":O}
    Just keep tying them until you find one that works.

    I "think" that many repositories may have yet to update, but that's just a guess.

    BTW this was an update not a fresh install..
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  2. booman

    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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  3. Daniel~

    Daniel~ Chief BBS Administrator Staff Member

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    Thanks Boo!
    Firefox does continue to work fine, just don't update it to UMa.
    And your right I had this problem occur in the last release.

    after a few weeks Mint issued another firefox that worked
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Is the problem related to frontend GUI elements?
    Like changing the icons, button location, menus?
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    Daniel~ Chief BBS Administrator Staff Member

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    I took another run at updating today. This time I removed firfox before updating.
    Still no go.

    Everything seems just fine until I open Firefox. Firfox is unreadable due to transparency
    at lest two different pages are trying to display.

    I'll give Mint a few days and try something else..if I can think of something else to try.
    Not biggie, system remains entirely stable.Thanks for taking a look at this for me Boo.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    I keep forgetting that you crank up the font sizes in Mint.
    There is a chance Firefox is having an issue with font scaling.
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    B-b-but..."UMA" Mint?? Isn't ONE Uma (Thurman) in this world enough?

    Yeah, I know it's a dumb comment software wise but I never, ever claimed to be smart re: software.

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