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Old 06-17-2004, 10:07 PM   #1
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Mozilla 1.7


Mozilla 1.7 just came out. If I install it, I am afraid I will then have to reinstall flash, java, mplayer-plugin, etc and that is a pain in the ass. Will slackware-current eventually have Mozilla 1.7 in binary format so I can install via swaret? What do you all recommend?
 
Old 06-17-2004, 10:13 PM   #2
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Your flash, java, etc plugins should be inside $HOME/.mozilla/plugins folder so installing mozilla 1.7 wont delete them
 
Old 06-17-2004, 10:27 PM   #3
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Ok I installed it to a new directory as is instructed in the readme... In /usr/local/mozilla. However, when I launch mozilla (/usr/bin/mozilla), I still have mozilla 1.6.
 
Old 06-17-2004, 10:39 PM   #4
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Replace the executable
 
Old 06-17-2004, 10:40 PM   #5
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One quick and dirty solution is to delete you're old mozilla binary (i assume the one at /usr/bin is 1.6?) and make it a symlink to the new in /usr/local/mozilla.
 
Old 06-17-2004, 11:22 PM   #6
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I got it working, expect my fonts look awful. I tried to match up the fonts with what my windows Mozilla has, but that uses Times New Roman and Arial (among a few others), and I can't find it on this machine. Can someone tell me the best fonts to use (in Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts)? What I am using now is hard to see.
 
Old 06-18-2004, 01:16 AM   #7
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Guys, and also it is saying I have to install the Mozilla Personal Security Manager when I try to go to sites where I enter a login and password. I've looked around and I can't find such a thing to download, expect for a redhat rpm. I don't recall having to install this before. What is it and how can I install it?
 
Old 06-18-2004, 02:17 AM   #8
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Just tried it, it can't use my system fonts. Where is the gtk version?
 
Old 06-18-2004, 05:22 PM   #9
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You have to compile your own with xft enabled like I just (to my vast astonishment) did. (Only took three tries.) Mozilla, in their infinite wisdom, ships fugly builds by default.

Or wait until this guy - oops. Just hit the site and saw it's done

http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html

til this guy builds one. (You can thank my compiling this morning causing him to build one today. Glad I wanted to build mozilla anyway, or I'd be pissed.)

Dunno about any security manager thing, sorry. Unless you mean the password manager stuff, but I've never had to do anything special for that.
 
Old 06-18-2004, 09:29 PM   #10
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Quote:
Originally posted by digiot
You have to compile your own with xft enabled like I just (to my vast astonishment) did. (Only took three tries.) Mozilla, in their infinite wisdom, ships fugly builds by default.

Or wait until this guy - oops. Just hit the site and saw it's done

http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html

til this guy builds one. (You can thank my compiling this morning causing him to build one today. Glad I wanted to build mozilla anyway, or I'd be pissed.)

Dunno about any security manager thing, sorry. Unless you mean the password manager stuff, but I've never had to do anything special for that.
So you recommend removing what I have and installing this? Hopefully this will also solve my Mozilla PSM problem.
 
Old 06-18-2004, 10:27 PM   #11
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I tried it and it worked pretty much. I got no "needs Personal Security Manager" when entering l/p's on sites. I still don't see many fonts to choose, but what I picked looks fine. From now on this is the page I will download Mozilla from.
 
Old 06-18-2004, 11:28 PM   #12
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Sorry I missed your last question, but glad it worked out for you. Yeah, I've never figured out how to get mozilla to look at all my fonts but it looks pretty good as long as xft is enabled so I've been content. But without it, sites are pretty bad sights.
 
  


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