FC1 confusing Firefox 1.0 and mozilla-1.4.3-1.fc1.1.legacy

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Nov 16 18:00:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> I downloaded the Firefox 1.0 tarball, untarred it, did the install, and
> the very nice new installer ran fine, and opened 1.0. When I closed it,
> and then tried to open it from a launcher, I got only 0.9.3 -- and I got
> it from the mozilla launcher as well as the firefox launcher.

The model of every application having its own proprietary weird installer
doesn't work very well in RPM-managed systems, for better or for worse.

I'd suggest instead installing the firefox-1.0 package from the development
('rawhide') Fedora tree.




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