Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

[Chris Martin <chriscodes@gmail.com>]

On 9/23/05, Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk> wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > Albert wrote:
> >
> >> michael wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>> and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful
> >>> manner, but then you prob knew that already ;)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Insults?  I only responded in kind to Antony, who believes answering a
> >> newbie question is 'breast feeding'.
> >
> >
> > Please, not in front of the kids.
> >
> > Well to bring this back on track (maybe), I also have installed Tbird
> > and Ffox from the executables on sarge.  One of the reasons is the
> > debian packages don't have the cool icons.  Ok maybe that's a lame
> > reason.  The other reason is I have trouble installing themes and
> > extensions using the debian packages.  Why is this the case?  Is it
> > because they try to install into the application (/usr) instead of my
> > home directory, and then don't have the right permissions?
>
> I think you brought this up a while back.  Most people don't have this
> problem.  Perhaps you could tell us which extensions you are trying to
> install and how you are trying to install them?
>

I don't have this problem.
Although, I do sometimes use the mozilla binaries for the icons, so
it's not _that_ lame. ;)


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