Firefox as default browser in Fedora

Vincent pros-n-cons at bak.rr.com
Fri Feb 13 23:15:38 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:53, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:36:05PM -0800, Vincent wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:00, stark wrote:
> > > > created fedora extras repository when it becomes available.
> > > 
> > > OK, I'd settle for this.
> > > 
> > > But seeing as it's not available, how about some INCLUDED docs
> > > indicating how to get these apps?  I moved to Fedora from FreeBSD
> > > and found getting yum and apt-get working very difficult and poorly
> > > documented.
> > > 
> > > I don't care _how_ I just want to be able to find out the answer :)
> > > 
> > > Dana Lacoste
> > > 
> > 
> > The Fedora FAQ has a great yum.conf
> > http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/samples/yum.conf
> > just throw that file in /etc and uncomment the DaG repositories for
> > Firefox
> 
> But that's no use for a newbie. Can't a package be created for FC inclusion
> with menu entries for installation of 3rd party software? Like java,
> firefox, flash, etc.?
> 
> Regards,
> Luciano Rocha
> 

If they did it by default that would mean they support it, which is not
true. 





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