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Program do not update on ASUS Eeec 900

clas.jonson
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Version; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

This is what my ASUS Eeec 900 Linux came with. How can I update

Version; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 This is what my ASUS Eeec 900 Linux came with. How can I update

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the-edmeister
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The version of Xandros Linux (from early 2007) that Asus is using on the eeePC doesn't have the GTK package needed to run Firefox 3+ versions, you need to update it.
See this:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=41815
or this:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installfirefox3?s=firefox

IMO, you might be better off installing a newer Linux operating system, rather than patching Xandros. I have been running Ubuntu & Firefox 3.6 on my EeePC 900 20G for a while now and found it to be faster than Xandros & Firefox 2.0.0.14, with slightly better battery life. I am getting ready to install Ubuntu 10.10, which was released a week ago.