Firefox One Point Oh!

[volvoguy]

Hi Christoph! 

I'm with you - I didn't wait for Hoary either, but I also didn't want
to be the technical support contact for people that might break things
by using an unsupported browser. :-)

I do something similar to you, but I keep all my personal and
unsupported apps in a "bin" directory in my home account:

/home/aaron/bin  (then)
/home/aaron/bin/firefox

And simply add a different launcher for that version. It's not a clean
install either, but it helps me remember which one I need to blow away
if it starts misbehaving. :-)

Aaron


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:25:51 +1300, Christoph Georgi
<christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> Why wait for Hoary? Just download it and install it as follows (although
> it's a not very "clean" installation):
> 
> Extract the firefox....tar.gz to /opt
> cd /opt/firefox-installer
> ./firefox-installer
> Choose /opt/firefox-installer as installation directory
> Customize if you wish
> Hit install.
> 
> That done change the launcher properties of Firefox to run
> /opt/firefox-installer/firefox and off we go!
> 
> Thanks to Travis Newman as this is basically his "howto"! (but most
> people don't seem to bother about looking back in the mailinglist ;)
> Works fine for 1.0, too (yet).
> 
> christoph
> 
> 
> 
> volvoguy wrote:
> > It's out, and hopefully in plenty of time to make it into Hoary! :-)
> >
> > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/