Firefox-2.0.0.3 vs FC6?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 March 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 22 March 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> On 3/22/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> Greetings;
>>>>
>>>> There is a readme.txt that point one to a web page in the download
>>>> of ff-2.0.0.3-tar.gz from the ff main site.
>>>>
>>>> Unforch, I cannot find an install script in the archive, nor any
>>>> install/update instructions on the web page.
>>>>
>>>> So how does one go about installing it on an FC6 box?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers, Gene
>>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>>>> * wichert_ imagines master without a MTA
>>>> <james> wichert: ehm?  that might hinder peformance of the BTS :p
>>>
>>> Would have been nice if you had check Fedora's website first. Or
>>> googled "firefox+2+fedora" but anyways, here you go:
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox2
>>
>> Which does not of course point to an installable rpm, the link
>> provided is a 404.  I also have an alpha of ff-3, but it also has no
>> installer.
>>
>> So it appears that to install it on an FC6 system, we are going to
>> have to write our own installer.  Or wait till FC7, at which time you
>> might deign to include it.  Methinks you are throwing away a valuable
>> testing resource, your users.
>
>Well, not everything needs an installer or rpm.
>
>I downloaded the FF2.0.0.3 tar file, un-tar'ed it and created an icon on
> my desktop to run it.

So did I, but it found none of the plugins or bookmarks.


-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
It's more than magnificent -- it's mediocre.
		-- Sam Goldwyn