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Is there a MDK RPM for Firefox 0.9 yet?

thanks,
JOsh

forget it... i got it installed.. but i still can't get Java working!!!!! I couldn't in 0.8 either!! any tricks?

JOsh

ok, figured it out... incase it helps anyone else...

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html

i thought i had done all of this... but i deleted everything and started over.. i think i had an older version of JRE

Sorry for borrowing your thread. But does anyone know the difference between the files below?

firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
firefox-0.9-source.tar.bz2

Quote:

Originally posted by subaruwrx
firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
firefox-0.9-source.tar.bz2

Educated guess here (feel free to correct anyone):

source.tar.bz2 is a bz2 file (extract with 'tar -jxvf') which you can use to compile firefox from source

linux-gtk2+xf2 is a precompiled firefox binary in a tarball (extract with 'tar -zxvf') which you can just extract and run

linux-gtk2+xft-installer is a tarball with an executable installer.

Personally I would always go for the source and compile it, but that's because I'm on slackware and things normally compile on slackware ;).

Otherwise go for the installer :)

Steve