Re: Firefox Install

From: Andrea Vettorello (andrea.vettorello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:25:21 +0200
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    On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:33:15 +0200, Agustin <verycoolman@mail.com> wrote:
    > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:20:13 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
    >
    > > I doubt firefox from firefox.org will run on Woody (different glibc,
    > > gtk2..), anyway i will start running "firefox-installer", something
    > > like "sh firefox-installer" or chmod it +x and the running it...
    > >
    > >
    > > Andrea
    > >
    > > P.S. you'll better find some backports for Woody on apt-get.org
    >
    > Hi,
    > Excuse my butting in. I guess I did the wrong thing,then, cos I am
    > running sarge and couldn't see how to update 0.93 to 1.0 Preview using
    > dpkg so I downloaded firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz and
    > decompressed it to a new folder in the home directory. I then navigated to
    > the firefox starter and ran the browser - everything worked fine, though
    > it is applying all the extensions I installed for v 0.93, and accesses my
    > bookmarks list perfectly well. Only thing is, if I click on the old access
    > to firefox version 0.93 runs, which worries me because of possible issues
    > regarding having two installations of firefox (or was that only with the
    > earlier versions).
    >

    The biggest problem you can have is to mangle your bookmarks or lose
    the saved passwords, so not a big issue. =)

    You can create a backup copy of your 0.93 config dir
    (~/.mozilla/firefox) somewhere if you want...

    Andrea 

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