Firefox

[Demond James]

Mark Eggers wrote:

>Hmmm.
>
>As with most of my third-party software, I just download it, compile it,
>and install it.
>
>Fortunately Firefox is already compiled and ready to go.  I downloaded
>firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz (since I don't like the fonts on
>the other version), uncompressed it, untarred it, put the appropriate
>entries on my menu, and I was good to go.
>
>I made the link from
>/usr/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so to the plugin
>directory under firefox (firefox/plugins) for java.  I made the link for
>the flash plugin.  I added the gxine plugin.  Everything is fine and
>working.
>
>It's my default browser.  I use Evolution for my mail client, and one of
>these days I'll do the hack to Firefox that allows it to call external
>mail programs for the mailto: protocol.
>
>All in all, a pretty painless operation.
>
>/mde/
>just my two cents . . . .
>
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>
You should put all mozilla plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.  This 
way you don't have to mess with them when you upgrade and they get used 
by both Mozilla and firefox

I rebuilt and installed the src.rpm from 
http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id1272 and everything is smooth 
so far.  I haven't tried to install an extension yet.  That was a 
problem with the old firebird rpm.