Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Albert wrote:
> I am a new user of Debian.  My first task after system install is to
> install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7.  It's a
> piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I
> have no idea how I might then wrap them with an icon and to get them to
> show in the menus.  Do debian users not do this sort of thing?  If so,
> could someone point me to the appropriate documentation?

Please read the Debian Reference.  One of the main reasons to use Debian
is to use software packaged from Debian repositories rather than
downloading generic binaries and source.