Er.. I feel a bit of an idiot with this one, but here goes..

I installed Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and after installing it, it opened up and worked well.

However, next time I booted up my PC (Mandrake 10.1 community) I can't find where Mozill installed to. How do I find where it is, to open it????

I still have the Mozilla (not firefox) browser installed and clicking on this logo opens up the old browser.

Obviously I'm a bit of a newbie.......

Thanks
Adrian

Open up a terminal window and type "whereis firefox" (without the quotes), that should tell you the path to the executable.

Most likely it is installed in your user home directory.

That is what it did for me.

As far as making firefox your default browser, there might be an option in Firefox itself to do this (I can't remember for certain). If not, you will need to set it in your Desktop manager (KDE, Gnome, or whatever)

One weird bug I've experienced:

I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and firefox is set as my default browser. But, if I click on a link in my email client (Evolution) the link will open in the old Mozilla UNLESS I already have firefox up and running. Then the link will open in firefox. Just a little weirdness.


Rundi

Thanks for the replies.

I'll boot back up in Mandrake later and have a look where it is. However, I unzipped the tar.gz file in my home folder and all the files for Firefox are in there.. but not anything that I can click on to open Firefox.

When I installed firefox, the default location for me was /home/(username)/firefox-installer.
I actually changed the path, but the default above was the one showing initially...

firefox-installer is in my home directory..... but isn't that the file for installing Firefox?

What do I do to actually run it? Can I get a clickable icon from somewhere?

It sounds like you want a launcher.

What information do you get when you type "whereis firefox" into a terminal window?

That will tell you where the executable file for firefox is located.

For example, when I type "whereis firefox" into my terminal I get

firefox: /usr/local/bin/firefox

(I changed my firefox install from my home directory. Yours will be different from mine.)

Rundi

You might also look at the note at the end of the instlation instructions. My recolation is that it tells you that you must run firefox as su to create some necessary files.

It works fine now thanks. I have to go to home, then Firefox Installer, then Firefox and click on that. I would like an icon on the desktop, but I'll cope for now

thanks
Adrian

If you're using KDE, right-click on your desktop, select "Create New"->"Link to Application" and put "~/<Firefox Instaler>/Firefox" in the application path (where <Firefox Instaler> is the actual installer path.). Click on the blank icon and select the icon you want displayed, and you're done.

I don't use GNOME much, but I think it's about as simple as that, too, with the newest GNOME release,

Hey, I'll try that - thanks.

I'm very new to all this Linux stuff, but am keen to learn!