A long Shot - Upgrading Firefox

[Zmuk]

I'm a Linux newbie who's trying to upgrade Firefox from 1.5 - 2.0 in Slackware 11.0

I've downloaded the file
gunzip'd it
(un)tar'd it

I now have a whole bunch of files in /home/me/firefox/ff.install
What do I do with them? I've followed the readme.txt to getfirefox.com/releases that tells me nothing that I can use.

[Vergil83]

Take a look at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/344054-post2.html
Or you can install a slackware package of it http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_...e=firefox&ver=

[dangeroushobo]

All I've ever had to do was un-tar the file and then run the script inside called "firefox".
So since its in your home, it would be: ~/firefox/firefox
And then I change the alias to point to the new firefox.

[kern]

Just install the firefox 2 package pat provides on his rsync mirrors

[Zmuk]

I thought that I fixed it, but apparently someone at Mozilla doesn't like me.

I ran the Firefox script file & ended up with a page titled:
"You've Updated To The Latest Version of Firefox"
Looking at "Help/About Mozilla Firefox" confirms the upgrade to v 2.0.0.1

I quit Firefox, re-open it which takes me to the "Updated" page.
"Help/About Mozilla Firefox" shows v 1.5.0.7

[bryansmith]

How did you go about installing it? If you ran the same copy of FF (the 2.0.0.1 copy), it would be the same version.

Bryan

[dangeroushobo]

The second time you ran it did you click on the firefox icon that time? Since nothing is installed the alias is not change to point to the new FF. Most quick icons use a terminal command to start the application instead of the path to the script to start it. The alias for FF is firefox. So typing in a terminal

alias firefox="~/firefox/firefox"

should fix that problem.