How to fire up Firefox after download
 

(While the wife is crackin' at me for screwing up Windows....)

I downloaded and successfully installed Firefox. But how do I make a short cut. I tried Right Click...Link to App...but I never know what to link it to. Displayed are a list of .bin, .so
.sh.

Please advise.

Thanks.

In the folder where you installed FireFox, there'll be a file called "firefox" (without any extension). Just link the shortcut to that.

Note that the executable are typically installed to the /usr/bin directory. Not in this case though.

Thunderbird is the same way.

I tried that but it doesn't work. Linked it to Firefox (page in background with black screen in front) but didn't work.

Just thinking, do I have to log off and log back in?

Thanks.

Nothing fancy needed to create a shortcut to your desktop - I simply drag the Firefox icon from the extracted directory onto the desktop and then click "Link here" (using KDE)

Open up a xterm and type in the path to where Firefox was extracted such as /path/to/firefox/firefox and see if an error comes up. If so you may need to download a different firefox found here http://mozilla.gnusoft.net/firefox/releases/0.8/ and download the firefox with xft.

Remove the old firefox you extracted and extract the new downloaded tar package. I had to use this one in order to get firefox to work, it wouldn't work with the regular firefox package.

I tried the new download and same thing. Logged on as root...deleted the old Firefox Folder. Downloaded the new one, installed fine. I then go back to the folder and all the icons are listed. I tried (file:/root/Coop/FireFox/firefox/firefox) the firefox icon with the black screen and white page behind it. "Couldn't find program" is the error.

Anything else?

What happens when you launch it from the console?

Sorry to drag this out but I can't figure it out. I have tried downloading from the site and the other link provided here.

Here is what it looks like now:

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 root]# cd Coop/Firefox

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 Firefox]# ls
firefox/ firefox-0.8-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 Firefox]# cd firefox

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# ls
chrome/ libnspr4.so* libssl3.so* regchrome*
components/ libnss3.so* libxpcom_compat.so* regxpcom*
defaults/ libnssckbi.so* libxpcom.so* res/
firefox* libplc4.so* libxpistub.so* run-mozilla.sh*
firefox-bin* libplds4.so* mangle* searchplugins/
icons/ libsmime3.so* mozilla-xremote-client* shlibsign*
ipc/ libsoftokn3.chk mozipcd* xpicleanup*
libmozjs.so* libsoftokn3.so* plugins/

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# firefox
bash: firefox: command not found


So I type:

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# firefox

And I get Program cannot be found. I also tried to drag the icon over to the desktop but it says the same thing. Is there something simple (or huge) I am missing?

Thanks.

You need to specify the full path to firefox. So in the above case, it will be

#/coop/Firefox/firefox/firefox (or something like this)

alternatively, go into the directory where the program is and then do
./firefox

(notice the ./ at the beginning. It's important).

On the firefox I dwnloaded it's started with the mozilla-firefox command. Tis in me path so no directory needed.

I tried it, please correct me if I'm wrong...

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 root]# cd Coop/Firefox/firefox

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# ls
chrome/ libnspr4.so* libssl3.so* regchrome*
components/ libnss3.so* libxpcom_compat.so* regxpcom*
defaults/ libnssckbi.so* libxpcom.so* res/
firefox* libplc4.so* libxpistub.so* run-mozilla.sh*
firefox-bin* libplds4.so* mangle* searchplugins/
icons/ libsmime3.so* mozilla-xremote-client* shlibsign*
ipc/ libsoftokn3.chk mozipcd* xpicleanup*
libmozjs.so* libsoftokn3.so* plugins/

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# ./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]#

Thanks.

the problem is not with the way you're starting firefox. As the message says,. you're missing a file. I'm not sure which package that would be in but it must be on the CDs. Go to mandrake control center and then to the software installation tool and look for a package that contains libXft.so.2 (use the search function).

This may be an rpm you need to install http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...rake+9.0&arch=

HTH

I just usually make a launcher instead of linking....or is that the same thing? Correct me if I'm wrong...:p <<<<<<<<:newbie: