installing Firefox 1.0PR (Re: I don't want to beat this to death, but...

Philippe Landau lists at mailry.net
Sun Oct 24 11:25:56 UTC 2004


Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
>>I havn't come across anything bad with 1.0, in fact I've found it much
>>better than the previous versions.
>>One solution is to download firefox from the mozilla.org website and
>>uninstall the mozilla-firefox package then install what you downloaded
>>somewhere, I'd say in your home dir if you're the only user of the
>>machine, keeps the permissions stuff simple*grin* and then ln -s
>>/where-ever/firefox/firefox
>> /usr/bin/firefox
> 
> 
> Have done that, with symlink in /usr/bin from /usr/local/bin/firefox
> and everything seems to be working, for all seven users.  Then I tried
> to use apt-get to uninstall the other version and it says it'll have
> to also uninstall a trivial little packaged called ubuntu-desktop...

ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package and can be removed safely.

> The latest version of firefox is definitely rock solid for me and
> absolutely crucial because what was fixed between 0.9.3 and the
> preview release is compatibility with my bank's web site. This would
> be a show stopper for me, forcing me back to Fedora Core 3
> (test-whatever) and all the bleeding edge headaches. ("Sorry kids, you
> can't use the Linux pc upstairs for a while. Daddy's gotta fix it...")
> 




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