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How to install Firefox 61+ on Oracle Linux 6?

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I am trying to install firefox 61.0.2 while running oracle linux 6. After installing, when I try to open firefox I get:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/firefox/libmozgtk.so: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM.

I tried installing GTK 3 library but, this is not comaptible with ol 6. I currently have gtk2.x86_64 2.24.23-9.el6 which is the latest available.

Is there anyway around this?

I noticed however that GTK 3 was required since Mozilla 59+. But if I install the latest available firefox package via rpm (60.6.1), I do not get the same error .

Any help would be appreciated.

I am trying to install firefox 61.0.2 while running oracle linux 6. After installing, when I try to open firefox I get: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/firefox/libmozgtk.so: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. I tried installing GTK 3 library but, this is not comaptible with ol 6. I currently have gtk2.x86_64 2.24.23-9.el6 which is the latest available. Is there anyway around this? I noticed however that GTK 3 was required since Mozilla 59+. But if I install the latest available firefox package via rpm (60.6.1), I do not get the same error . Any help would be appreciated.

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James
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Firefox for Linux from mozilla.org since 46.0 (released on April 26, 2016) has required GTK 3.4 (three.four) at minimum to run though most pretty recent distros in last few years (that is not Long Term Support or LTS) have at least say GTK 3.12 (from 2014) as the current is 3.24.x (three.twenty-four).

Some Linux distros may have delayed this change from GTK 2.18 to 3.4 (three.four) or newer minimum for a while in their own packaged builds of Firefox.