Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior
Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au> writes:
<snip>
> 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.
>
<snip>
> 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/
>
All of the above actually isn't always necessary. It's usually OK to
just unpack the new build on top of the old one and it'll preserve the
plugins/talkback/etc from the old build. However, sometimes I'll run
into bugs which go away only after killing the old directory and
unpacking again.
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