Re: Firefox Install
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:33:15 +0200, Agustin <verycoolman@mail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:20:13 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
>
> > I doubt firefox from firefox.org will run on Woody (different glibc,
> > gtk2..), anyway i will start running "firefox-installer", something
> > like "sh firefox-installer" or chmod it +x and the running it...
> >
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> > P.S. you'll better find some backports for Woody on apt-get.org
>
> Hi,
> Excuse my butting in. I guess I did the wrong thing,then, cos I am
> running sarge and couldn't see how to update 0.93 to 1.0 Preview using
> dpkg so I downloaded firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz and
> decompressed it to a new folder in the home directory. I then navigated to
> the firefox starter and ran the browser - everything worked fine, though
> it is applying all the extensions I installed for v 0.93, and accesses my
> bookmarks list perfectly well. Only thing is, if I click on the old access
> to firefox version 0.93 runs, which worries me because of possible issues
> regarding having two installations of firefox (or was that only with the
> earlier versions).
>
The biggest problem you can have is to mangle your bookmarks or lose
the saved passwords, so not a big issue. =)
You can create a backup copy of your 0.93 config dir
(~/.mozilla/firefox) somewhere if you want...
Andrea
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