Unable to Launch Firefox 3.5.19 On Linux Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

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virtual_law said

Can’t launch Firefox 3.5.19 on Linux Ubuntu ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Why not just type firefox? Are you running your distro version or another downloaded version? The error is telling you that it cannot find libdbus-glib-1.so.2. Is the file there. I see it on in my OS. see screenshot

libdbus-glib-1-2 - GLib-based library for using D-Bus

/usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 /usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.3.5 /usr/share/doc/packages/libdbus-glib-1-2 /usr/share/doc/packages/libdbus-glib-1-2/NEWS /usr/share/licenses/libdbus-glib-1-2 /usr/share/licenses/libdbus-glib-1-2/COPYING

Thank you, maybe switching distributions will work. What version of OpenSUSE are you running?

UPDATED: I get a similar error, but 3.5.19 is not 64bit. [5:15pm]> ./firefox-bin ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Just curious why that old version?

Just curious why that old version?

was wondering meself, thinking it was some kind of ubuntu release...

jonzn4SUSE said

Just curious why that old version?

was wondering meself, thinking it was some kind of ubuntu release...

It may have been, way back back in April 2011. https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-us/firefox/3.5.19/releasenotes/

It was not until Firefox 4.0 that there were 64-bit Firefox for Linux from Mozilla as it was 32-bit only before I believe.

Just curious why that old version?

Trying to get J2SE 1.3 and J2SE 5.0 working in the browser.