Re: [SLE] MozillaFirefox 0.9.1

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:50:17 +0100

On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:19, Mark Crean wrote:
> I don't know whether anyone has found a workaround, but watch out for
> the most recent version of MozillaFirefox from SuSe - 0.9.1.
>
> It says that to get it working you must first fire it up as root. Alas,
> if I try to do that off the console, I get
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
>
> (firefox-bin:8909): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> whether I use su, sux or xhost +localhost.
>
> If I actually log in as root on KDE (not advised), I can start Firefox
> OK. But when I log out and back in again as an ordinary user, then I
> can't start Firefox as an ordinary user, since I now get the same
> message as root used to get above.
>
> I really really really really wish SuSE would test this stuff a bit more
> before putting it on their ftp servers, or post a readme explaining how
> to get round this little circular argument.
>
> :)

OK, well go to:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

and download the default Linux file, which is:

firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

su

cp firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz /usr/local/

cd /usr/local

tar zxf firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

cd bin

ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox

Right-click your desktop and create a new link to application. You can get an
icon by browsing to /usr/local/firefox/icons. Name it and give /usr/local/
firefox/firefox as the path to the executable.

You're good to go, and you haven't had to access the x-server as root. And
everything is nicely anti-aliased, etc.

If you didn't care about whether other users could access it, you could just
untar the whole thing in your $HOME and link to it there.

HTH
Fergus

>
> Fish

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