Firefox-2

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 5:19:58 am Nigel Ridley wrote:
> lanzen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 07:23:26 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> >> Alt-F2 > firefox-2
> >> produces an error message
> >
> > I missed that, sorry. Which error?
>
> KDEInit could not launch 'firefox'.:
> could not find 'firefox' executable
>
> > I got firefox-2 in /usr/bin/firefox-2
>
> That did it :-) but it doesn't have all my new bookmarks from firefox-3.0 
> - never mind I will find them later.
>
> > Just a thought: have you tried just "firefox"?
>


As a KDE user, I didn't want to install Firefox from the Ubuntu sources 
because it installed too many unnecessary gnome and gtk libs.  This was the 
gutsy case; I don't know if that has changed with hardy as my system is an 
upgrade.

Anyway, I installed firefox 2 from mozilla.com and installed it 
to /opt/firefox.  Everything seems to work with static libraries, and the 
only dependency needed is libstdc++5 (or something like that).

I don't use firefox 3 because my favorite extensions don't yet work with it.  
However, it does seem to share the home directory configurations with firefox 
2 when installed this way.



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