FireFox & Mozilla based Web Browsers

[Gerald Thompson]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:18 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey lads,
> 
> I've been trying for around a week now to run any browser to connect
> to the internet, but to no avail... Here is the full story:
> 
> I have FC4 which I am keeping up to date daily using yum... I run
> KDE3.5, which is also up2date... I also got a DSL connection through
> my Network, which requires no proxy settings...
> 
> When I run K's Konqueror, I log on and browse the net well, but the
> problem comes when trying to use FF... I've installed FF1.5, but it
> doesn't connect to the internet, it keeps on searching for the web
> page forever, and then gives me the "Page Timed-out" error... I tried
> Gnome's Epiphany, and it still did the same...
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> --
> A. Helmy
> 

Hi Ali

Try this:

You can build your own RPM for Firefox and Thunderbird and it will
overwrite the older version.  Also I find it useful to use

yum localinstall "path to the rpm"

The benefit of using yum localinstall is if there is a missing
dependency then it will automatically download it.

Here is the info on building Firefox and Thunderbird RPM's

Do this first:
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/

Another method to create rpmbuild directory in your home directory is
using fedora-rpmdevtools
Thanks to Mr. Warren Togami's suggestion.

1) Install fedora-rpmdevtools binary RPM from Fedora Extras for your
Fedora release.
   $ sudo yum install fedora-rpmdevtools

2) As a non-root user, run fedora-buildrpmtree to create rpmbuild
directory.
   $ fedora-buildrpmtree


Do these next:

http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/

http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/


It has worked perfectly for me following the steps on those web sites.

-- 
Gerald Thompson <geraldlt at gmail.com>