Hi Jerry: I have posted this problem in a thread which claims to have been resolved, but is clearly not so. I have installed Linux lite v 3.8 on two 32 bit PCs (Asrock motherboards, 1 GB RAM, AMD XP CPUs ,1900), and immediately after installation Firefox and Thunderbird will not run, but crash straight away, producing the Mozilla crash report window. F & T however run properly without any problem in the 64-bit version of Linux lite 3.8 on a 64-bit PC.
As I have suggested in that other thread, there are a number of items posted in various places on the Internet and on other OS forums, which suggest that this problem could be due to the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird being included in the distributed OSs - i.e. the 64-bit versions instead of the 32-bit versions. This would make sense from my observations and is possibly because Firefox and Thunderbird (F & T) are carried over into Linux lite from Ubuntu and at the time the 32-bit version of Linux lite 3.8 was complied Ubuntu had the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird within it; since then Ubuntu have corrected their error, and now have the correct 32-bit versions of F & T included, which is why F & T run properly in the newest release of Ubuntu, but Linux lite have not corrected this error which probably rolled over from Ubuntu?
This would also explain why this problem does not exist in the 3.8 64-bit version of Linux lite. The solution it seems is to delete the present wrong versions of F & T in 32-bit Linux lite and then install the proper 32-bit versions of F & T direct from the Mozilla site. I have not yet done this, but would suggest therefore that these wrong versions of F & T in Linux lite 3.8 should perhaps be corrected.
As I have suggested in that other thread, there are a number of items posted in various places on the Internet and on other OS forums, which suggest that this problem could be due to the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird being included in the distributed OSs - i.e. the 64-bit versions instead of the 32-bit versions. This would make sense from my observations and is possibly because Firefox and Thunderbird (F & T) are carried over into Linux lite from Ubuntu and at the time the 32-bit version of Linux lite 3.8 was complied Ubuntu had the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird within it; since then Ubuntu have corrected their error, and now have the correct 32-bit versions of F & T included, which is why F & T run properly in the newest release of Ubuntu, but Linux lite have not corrected this error which probably rolled over from Ubuntu?
This would also explain why this problem does not exist in the 3.8 64-bit version of Linux lite. The solution it seems is to delete the present wrong versions of F & T in 32-bit Linux lite and then install the proper 32-bit versions of F & T direct from the Mozilla site. I have not yet done this, but would suggest therefore that these wrong versions of F & T in Linux lite 3.8 should perhaps be corrected.