On Monday 05 March 2007, Ric Moore wrote: >On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:38 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: >> On 3/2/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I have a question. A month or more ago I filed a bugzilla against >> > firefox concerning a misconfiguration of the program as distributed >> > that would not allow the user to view the view & Edit Actions part >> > of the Preferences->Downloads screen. >> > >> > The response I got from red hat was to file the bugzilla with >> > mozilla and cross reference it with the red hat bugzilla. >> > >> > Well I recently installed firefoox2 from the remi site and notices >> > that this problem is absent. My question is to people who have >> > installed firefox2 by other routes. Does the problem exist in these >> > installations, that is, can you see a list of the association of >> > file types with handlers without fooling around with the >> > configuration parameters? >> > >> > If you can, I guess the complaint is moot. >> > -- >> >> But the problem is Firefox just in testing stage and never release... >> I also using Firefox 2.0.0.2 from mozilla.org with .gz format. >> No problem at all... > >Same here, and I also use java straight from the horse's mouth. No >problems at all and I'm a fair example of the relative Linux-Idiot. I've >got the FireFox 3.0 beta installed as well. No probs, except that all of >the "helpers" apps are not ready for 3.0. But I've had 2.0 installed and >running for months here. No need to beat a dead horse. Ric > How did you install it, Ric? I added the remi repo to yum, but it wants to add, and in some cases downgrade, about 150 megs worth of dependencies here just to install 2.0.0.2, so I canceled that puppy. And the last time I put in the direct stuff for 2.0.0 from FF's site was a quick lesson in how quick one could crash FF, repeatedly. >-- >================================================ >My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: >"There are two Great Sins in the world... >..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. >Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. >Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ >http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar >http://www.wayward4now.net >================================================ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
