A few tips on how to install Firefox Quantum on Elive, especially for those of us interested in Amazon Prime Video. This is a detailed, step-by-step instruction aimed at every level of linux experience (also those of us not familiarized with using terminal) :
enter the language directory of your choice , right click on firefox-62.0.tar.bz2 file and copy the link
open your terminal (Ctrl-Alt-t)
enter cd /opt/
enter sudo wget and paste (Ctrl-Shift-v or Shift-Ins) the link (remember about the space after wget )
enter sudo tar xf firefox-62.0.tar.bz2
enter sudo nano /usr/share/applications/firefox-quantum.desktop and paste the text below
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox Quantum
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Icon=firefox
Actions=ProfileManager;new-window;new-private-window;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;$
Ctrl-Shift-o to save
Ctrl-Shift-x to exit
It's almost ready...
The Firefox Quantum is available. You can check in your apps if it's so.
Now, there are some issues with sound. I solved the problem by installing 'pulseaudio'
enter sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
There is one more thing to do.
open audacious player and in File/Preferences/OutputSettings Change ALSA to PulseAudio
now, try to open a music file in Audacoius to check wether it works.
open Firefox Quantum go to Netflix / Amazon Prime Video .... Et voilĆ
Tks for the info !!
I it install but I am googling on how to enable DRM
Usually something pop asking if we want to enable DRM, but this little bar at the top, didn't pop, so I have to figure out how to enable drm
the audio configurator @Thanatermesis created does't allow me to listen on my USB headset if I am using Pulse Audio, I suppose the audio configurator was created for Alsa, I need to figure out how to may my audio play on my USB headset if I am using pulse audio
OK I recommended to people to INSTALL IT AT THEIR OWN RISK
I expererienced this
if I close FireFox Quantum, the process is still there, I need to quill it
I canāt 100% of the time choose my headset or speaker, Pulse Audio messed up a bit y audio config LOL
I will uninstall PulseAudio as I canāt easily use my HeadSet anymore
No worries @buzzy I still appreciate what you did, if you donāt use a headset or itās working well, and you donāt have the Firefox process that stay there, you can still continue to use it
I uninstalled PulseAudio, now my audio is back to normal. Canāt switch to Headset to speaker the opposite
As for the FireFox quantum not closing properly, itās not doing it everytime
JF
How is it going with Firefox 32 bits Quantum version 62, is it still working well for you ? Iāll continue testing when I have a minuteā¦ If we can make it work well, without any glitches, it could become the main browser Eliverās user would useā¦
@buzzy
Is this version better/more stable for us than FireFox Quantum V62 you posted earlier in this thread ?
I was able to install it but as for the audio :
The following worked for you ?
in the past your command to install pulseaudio worked but now :
Type āhelpā to know the ton of Elive features availableā¦
~ āÆāÆāÆ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
[sudo] password for jfbourdeau:
Reading package listsā¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā¦ Done
Package pulseaudio is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package āpulseaudioā has no installation candidate
note: pulseaudio can break your entire elive system lol (just play with it to test it all)
you can also try the command "apulse firefox" which runs firefox pipelined to alsa (default elive audio system) making it compatible as it was working over pulseaudio
you can do it for your own purpose but not for elive default... I mean, not for 3.0, this is major changes that can break too much things, is better to use the actual browsers, compatible and stable, next development will simply have by default updated browsers
for you, just try the last version and see if works (do all your tests in live mode which should work too)
finally, the most used command that i always say is "apui", this includes updating the packages before to run sudo apt-get install, so having used apui pulseaudio would have directly worked
āÆāÆāÆ apulse firefox
zsh: command not found: apulse
The program 'apulse' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install apulse
apulse: command not found
