Firefox 2.0 It's here and I want it.
Scott
geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Tue Oct 31 06:12:19 UTC 2006
Chanchao spake thusly on 10/30/2006 10:08 PM:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:44 +1300, Rebel Lion wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:29, Chanchao wrote:
>>> What's the most sensible way of getting Firefox 2.0?
>>>
>>> I noticed it's not in Backports yet.
>>>
>>> I don't compile.
>
>> So don't, if you want it that much download the tar.gz from mozilla and
>> untar it.
>
> Thanks, just did that! It seems to work so far, and I checked that the
> help browser (Yelp) still works, and it does.
>
> So.. so far so good I guess. Though this now won't be updated with
> security fixes though I think?
If you install it in your home directory you'll own it and you can then
set it to check for updates in the preferences section.
You'll actually see updates much quicker than with the Ubuntu version
this way.
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Scott
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