installing firefox 3

[scrarfussi]

i managed to download firefox 3 the tar file i exctracted it to my home folder hoping to find instructions on the inside on how to install it but alas the readme file points to some useless website i wonder have the people at mozilla forgotten about us who have never installed firefox manually before . im running opensuse 10.3 using kde can anyone help me install firefox thanx i cant use yast right now cause o my internet so it has too be manual thanx

[oz]

The firefox file inside the folder is executable so you can click that to start it if you want to run it from within your /home folder.

[james3302]

I copied my firefox folder to the /usr/local/src folder and made a launcher on my desktop for it, but it opens version 2 which came with my Ubuntu.

[Manchunian]

Right-click the launcher and change the command to firefox3.

[peteh]

Remove the symlink /usr/bin/firefox and create a new one to your firefox executable in /usr/local/src.

cd /usr/bin
su
root password
ln -s /usr/local/src/firefox/firefox

[peteh]

I forgot, still as root, you'll need to change permission on the symlink to allow users to use it.

[dth1]

Another option (and perhaps a bit easier) is to add the download link to your repo folder in yast and then use yast install software to install firefox 3.

Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0

[daark.child]

i managed to download firefox 3 the tar file i exctracted it to my home folder hoping to find instructions on the inside on how to install it but alas the readme file points to some useless website i wonder have the people at mozilla forgotten about us who have never installed firefox manually before . im running opensuse 10.3 using kde can anyone help me install firefox thanx i cant use yast right now cause o my internet so it has too be manual thanx

You simply extract the file and run the firefox executable in the extracted directory. On my computer, I extracted firefox to /opt/firefox and then ran

#ln -s /usr/lib/browser_plugins/* /opt/firefox/plugins/.

That enabled me to use the openSUSE browser plugins. If its just yourself using the computer, then you don't necessarily need to install it in a global directory. I also edited my Firefox launchers/short cuts to point to /opt/firefox/firefox. Also for my preferred browser, I changed it to /opt/firefox/firefox.

[oz]

You can also check this HowTo for more info on installing Firefox:

Installing Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base