firefox 2

[M. Lewis]

George Pappas wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I am running 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 and updgraded to firefox 2, my method 
> follows...
> 
> Downloaded the tarball firefox-2.0.tar.gz, firefox 1.5 lives in 
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/ so I created firefox-2 dir and dumped the 
> tarball in there.  Then modified the symbolic link /usr/bin/firefox to 
> point to my new install dir
> e.g.
> [george at titan lib]$ which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
> [george at titan lib]$ l /usr/bin/firefox
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Oct 26 09:52 /usr/bin/firefox -> 
> /usr/lib/firefox-2/firefox
> 
> to create the link .... ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-2/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
> 
> hope this helps, i'd like to know how everyone else has installed their 
> favourite browser
> 
> 
> Nathan Grennan wrote:
>> Guy Schlosser wrote:
>>> Hey all, has anyone tried to install Firefox 2.0?  I installed Fedora 
>>> 6 with no problems, but am trying to install firefox 2.0.  I tried a 
>>> yum install firefox-2*, and there was no match.  I also downloaded 
>>> the firefox tar ball, but don't see any install or makefiles.  If 
>>> anyone has any suggestions on how to get this thing installed, they 
>>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>  I made FC6 i386 rpms of Firefox 2.0. They are based on caillon's 
>> Firefox 2.0 FC7 source rpm.
>>
>>
>> http://proton.cygnusx-1.org/~edgan/firefox/
>>

Isn't this going to be in updates soon?

Thanks,
M

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