Firefox-2.0.0.3 vs FC6?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 March 2007, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 22Mar2007 22:24, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>| There is a readme.txt that point one to a web page in the download of
>| ff-2.0.0.3-tar.gz from the ff main site.
>|
>| Unforch, I cannot find an install script in the archive, nor any
>| install/update instructions on the web page.
>|
>| So how does one go about installing it on an FC6 box?
>
>I went (slightly paraphrased):
>
>  mkdir /tmp/ff
>  cd /tmp/ff
>  tar xvzf the-tarfile.tgz
>  mv firefox /opt/firefox-2.0.0.3-enGB
>  ln -s /opt/firefox-2.0.0.3-enGB/firefox /usr/local/bin/.
>
Thanks you.  Just the last 2 lines and editing the icon have at least made 
the bookarks available.

>Works fine. I also went into /opt/firefox-2.0.0.3-enGB/firefox/plugins
>and duplicated the flash and java plugins links from our older firefox
>install.

At one point I was nuking that, and ln -s'ing it to a separate plugins 
directory, which seemed to better protect the contents from the old 
mozilla installer which insisted on nuking the whole thing, making you 
spend the next 3 days cruizing the web looking to replace them yet again.
I don't recall if thats the situation now, so I suppose a visit to cnn.com 
et all is in order.

Thanks again, this worked well enough to get me going again, and it hasn't 
crashed (yet, the 2.0.0.0 version sure did, quickly)

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>
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