Stupid question but why doesn't Slackware 10.1 ship with Firefox 1.0? I just installed 10.1 and noticed that it comes with other browsers, like Netscape and Mozilla, but no Firefox. Does Pat think firefox is not stable enough yet?

I don't know but you can always go to www.linuxpackets.net and download it and install yourself with pkgtool

or just use the firefox installer
http://download.mozilla.org/?product...nux&lang=en-US

linuxpackets.net doesn't seem to be working with me... The one i know of and trust is linuxpackages.net. Give that a try.

i've heard that the third party package of firefox at linuxpackages.net
has some issues with it...such as themes and extensions support

Slackware 10.1 is a "maintainance" update, bumping program versions and fixing bugs/security holes. Likely in Slackware 11 firefox will ship.

The official release Firefox will work out of the box on Slackware!

Yes, Firefox is scheduled to ship in Slackware 11.

I had no problems installing the package for firefox 1.0 from linuxpackages.net, and have installed flash, java, and several themes..

Thats http://www.linuxpackages.net

I found that the linuxpackages 10.1 firefox package did not have anything in the plugins directory. I then found that java was not working anymore on my "current" machine either. I had a look around and found directories for four versions of mozilla in the /usr tree. The 1.7.5 version had a plugins directory pointing at a no longer existing java installation. I edited the softlink to where the latest java sdk is and it then worked. I then copied the java and flash plugins links to the firefox plugins directory and firefox worked also.

I've installed the package from www.linuxpackages.net Does anybody know how to make it use the default profile when i run firefox, when having a firefox already running. Doing ctrl+n is an option to start a new window, but i'm not used to doing this. Every time i run firefox, when a firefox window is already running, the new window will open with a "choose user profile" option and won't let you use the default profile. The same thing happens with the out-of-the-box mozilla. There is a lock file pointing at 127.0.0.1:<pid>, and the other windows you open with ctrl+n are child processes to this one. Is there anything i can do to attach the new window under this scheme?

i'm running the official firefox
and use the script by gojamiegirl
in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...firefox+script

Thanks for the link. When you open up a new window of the browser, by rerunning the firefox executable, does this new window open activated, or is it inactive?

new windows or tabs created by the script are active
(they become the current focus)


i never start firefox by running the binary directly

Why not just download from www.mozilla.org? Firefox comes with an easy GUI installer which can be used to install it in any distro.