Firefox 3.6
Bruce Marshall
bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Mon Nov 14 20:35:08 UTC 2011
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 07:12:29 AM Steve Morris wrote:
> On 15/11/11 06:26, ray burke wrote:
> > Eberhard Roloff,
> >
> > so just type in a terminal "sudo /opt/firefox/firefox", and then that
> > will auto update my firefox to
> > current release?
>
> Not specifically. That will run firefox as root, which will then allow
> the update process you still need to select from the menus to actually
> function. This method is required because /opt/firefox, in the above
> scenario, is owned by root. An alternative to this is to change the
> group ownership on /opt/firefox and all subdirectories and files from
> root to some other group that exists, then add write privileges to the
> group attributes for everything under the /opt/firefox tree, then add
> the group to your userid, which will then give your id the necessary
> privileges to then be able to run firefox without the requirement for
> sudo to update firefox. This is the process I am using for firefox 8 in
> another distribution.
>
> regards,
> Steve
Or just:
sudo chown -R user.user /opt/firefox/
where user.user is the username to run firefox... ray.ray ??
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