Firefox 2.0 parallel install

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 23 20:47:19 UTC 2006


Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Marcus Hartig wrote:
>> Gawain Lynch wrote:
>>
>>  > For those of us that want to use Firefox 2 to browse on FC6 without
>>  > having to rebuild half of the system, I have *hacked* up a quick
>>  > solution that allows a parallel install of FF2 along side FC6's 1.5x.
>>
>> I've tried the brandnew Firefox 2.0 Release parallel to 1.5.0.7 from:
>>
>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/
>>
>> Very fast rendering with the 2.0 version. Faster as with Fedora 
>> 1.5.0.7-7.fc6. Resizing windows and web rendering is wonderful faaaaast.
> 
> The upstream builds disable a few key features that we enable, and they 
> do a static build instead of linking everything dynamically.  Comparing 
> Fedora builds to upstream builds is not fair at all.  Besides, I've run 
> the two.  It's not really that much faster.  The overhead in the Fedora 
> packages is primarily because we install a bunch of langpacks.

Would it possible not to install all the different language packages 
when I just want just one?

Rahul





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