Firefox 2 installation for 10.1
 

Well, I've tried using the tarball, as well as the rpm that's posted on the repos.opensuse.org/mozilla rpm site and so far, I've had no luck in what should be a basically simple operation....

Has anyone had any luck with getting this thing installed, and available system-wide, not just root. I can start if from the local shell script in the extract directory, but that is all. I've set permissions to be 777 for the directory, but I cannot start it all the time from my user directory.

I've tried dragging links to the desktop, (it doesn't work at all, and I can't even delete it now...argh, a fungus).

Help my brothers and sisters.... help.

I need Firefox so I can buy useless junk on ebay :cry:

Hello

I'm using it at this very moment.

What I did:
copy the tarball to /usr/local/src
tar -xzvf firefox-2.0.tar.gz
cd firefox
./firefox

Works for every user.

Do you have any error messages?

Have a lot of fun

Koen Plessers

Thanks Koen

I'll give it a whirl. Seems simple enough.... Do you do it from root or user. I did something like that in root, but it still wouldn't run properly (I'm sure I did something wrong though...)

Sad though, I'm watching Fedora 6 do the whole thing by itself as I write this.....

Oh well, still like Suse better.

Just install the rpm in: /usr/local/firefox/
right click your old Firefox button and click on: "Configure Firefox Button"
In the "Command" field enter: /usr/local/firefox/firefox
Then find the button in the KDE Menu
In the "Command" window type: firefox %u
You can keep the old one for a while or do as I do.
Go into Yast and select the old Firefox to be removed.
It ends up cleaner if you remove the old one through Yast 1st. You won't loose your Bookmarks etc as they are kept in a different Directory.

Oops..I fergot
Just install it as User...not as "root"

Thanks.

Well, I did do what Keon suggested, but got error messages. I think I know what they are.

Alfred, I screwed the pooch on the firefox buttons, they're gone. I have to figure out how to get it to work with Gnome again.

I also now have a link on my desktop that I cannot even throw out, nor change the file it points to. This is bonkers.

Sorry
I can't help you with Gnome..KDE User only

I installed firefox this way:

Add this repository (or any closer mirror) to your installation sources:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repos...SE_Linux_10.1/
Then use YaST to install firefox. If a previous version was installed, the zen-updater should offer to update automatically.