Waterfox

A web browser that works great until one day the built in auto updater breaks it.

troubleshooting

after update 6.5.2 - libmozsqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Happens right after update to version 6.5.2. The update fails on Ubuntu/Mint Linux. The waterfox browser updater breaks the web browser.

error while loading shared libraries: libmozsqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Even though libmozsqlite3.so is present in the waterfox directory because it is part of waterfox and firefox for that matter.

No mention of the problem the developers created in their updater. No support available nor mention of it on their web site, blog, nor on their github. You're on your own. Your bookmarks and data are in ~/.waterfox so back all that up before proceeding. Then rm -rf your waterfox directory and reinstall from the latest bz2 file they offer. After you have extracted waterfox the browser should find your ~/.waterfox preferences and bookmarks and things will continue as normal, however, the backup is just in case something goes wrong.

1. back up ~/.waterfox (preferences and bookmarks) just in case
2. delete ~/watefox (or wherever you installed the binary)
3. download latest bz2 (waterfox-6.5.2.tar.bz2 in this case) and extract to ~/ so you end up with ~/waterfox
4. launch waterfox and your bookmarks and preferences should be utilized without intervention. The dumb thing will act like it updated successfully.