Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

[Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au>]

Quoth Colin Watson, 
> The mozilla in Debian stable and testing is really rather old. Let's
> hope we can get a new release out sometime soon and finally kill M18.

It's actually very easy to get and install the nightly builds into
/usr/local. If you want to actually use mozilla as your day-to-day
browser, newer builds are a lot less painful.

While it's something of an ugly hack, I use the following shell script
to download the most recent nightly when I feel like it. Of course,
you'll have to change the URL to your local mirror.

cheers,

damon

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/downloads
rm mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.bak
mv mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.bak
wget -t0 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/mozilla/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
rm -rf /usr/local/mozilla
tar xzvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz -C /usr/local
ln -s /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/* /usr/local/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6/[npr]* /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/


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