Firefox 3.0b1

Ken Moffat kmoffat at drizzle.com
Sat Nov 24 15:13:54 PST 2007


> Yes. I always unpack such stuff to /opt to avoid poluting the /usr
> with non-packaged software. The new Firefox takes over any existing
> Firefox/Iceweasel default directory, so all your settings and
> bookmarks are intact. You do have to put links for any plugins in
> place manually, but all my plugins worked without a hich.
>
> Also, you'll need to create new / update old icons if you want to run
> it that way. Under KDE, I just right click and run
> /opt/firefox/firefox. The firefox script (don;t try to run the
> firefox.bin) takes care of setting up the libraries, etc.
>

Thanks, I'll give it a try later.

-- 
ken





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