On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 06:53 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > On 1/9/06, Peter Gordon <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 05:06 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > >> > >>>As Firefox 1.5 release for a while, would it present in update release > >>>to update the current 1.0.x ? > >> > >>As mentioned in various places on the forums [1][2] and mailing list > >>[3], Firefox 1.5 is in the Rawhide (development) tree, which you have > >>the option of enabling if you want to help test, debug, and develop > >>Fedora Core further[4]. (Please note that you should probably not do > >>this on a production box, as it can potentially be *very* unstable, > >>though there are those who use it as their primary system.) > >> > >>[1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=88274 > >>[2] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=90232 > >>[3] http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-December/msg00638.html > >>[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/TestingGuide > >>-- > >>Peter Gordon (codergeek42) > >>GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7 > > > > > > So How long would it take in test ? > > > > Wong Kwok Hon > > > > I'll second Greg's suggestion. I unpacked the tarball from > mozilla.org/firefox into /usr/local and used DESKTOP -> PREFERENCES -> > MORE PREFERENCES -> PREFERRED APPLICATIONS to change the default browser > from "firefox" to "/usr/local/firefox/firefox %s". That's all it took. I also agree - I don't see why this is taking so long to test as a part of fedora-updates, unless they are trying to modify or disable sections of code (installing extensions or disabling the update tool perhaps?) to better fit with FC4 specs. Or perhaps resources are just fully dedicated to FC5 efforts right now and they don't have the bandwidth. Fresh RPMs has a Firefox 1.5 RPM that seems usable. For myself, I didn't find that RPM until after I did a manual install and needed to make the change to use Firefox 1.5 to be global for all of the users on my system. So, instead of changing Desktop Preferred Applications, I did the following: 1) Unpacked the Firefox 1.5 files to /usr/lib/Firefox-1.5 2) Copied over my existing plug-ins to /usr/lib/Firefox-1.5/plugins (I created a symlink for Java) 3) Renamed /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.backup 4) Created a symlink that results in /usr/bin/firefox --> /usr/lib/Firefox-1.5/firefox Voila! Just remember to put things back before upgrading any of the associated RPMs. And I agree that Firefox 1.5, in this configuration, runs *much* faster than 1.0.7... Cheers, Chris -- ====================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
