Firefox 2.0 under Kubuntu Edgy Eft - tab management

[Md. Rashid ul Islam]

On Sunday 29 October 2006 09:01, cliff1976 wrote:
> Is anyone else having trouble under Edgy (clean install from an ISO CD
> download) getting Firefox 2.0 to do the tabs properly?  Under Firefox 1.5 I
> had no trouble, but now, even though I have the tabs options set properly
> under Edit --> Preferences --> Tabs every hyperlink I click on that is
> supposed to open in a new window (target="_new") and used to get overridden
> to open in a new tab in an existing window actually does get opened in a
> new window (i.e., the tab options overriding the "new window" behavior
> appear to have no effect).  Here's a screenshot of my Tabs settings:
> http://www.cliff1976.net/ff-2.0-tabs.png
>
> I used the Firefox 2.0 package from the repository.  Anyone else seeing
> this?  It's *really* annoying (makes me want to run back to Opera).  I'd
> install Firefox 2.0 from http://getfirefox.com if I knew how to compare and
> see if that makes any difference, but I'm kind of reliant on packages to
> install stuff for me.
>
> I'm thankful for all tips!
> Cliff

Hi Cliff

Its actually really easy to install from the .tar.gz Its the binary installer, 
no compilation necessary.

Download the .tar.gz from www.getfirefox.com and save it to your Desktop. Then 
open a console (K Menu > System > Konsole) then enter the following:
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xvzf firefox-2.0.tar.gz
sudo cp firefox /opt
cd /opt/firefox
chmod a+x firefox
./firefox

And thats it!

Hope that helps :) Post back if you run into any problems

-Rashid