Would Firefox 1.5 present in update release repos. of Fedora Core 4 ?

[Nancy Merckle]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Adam Gibson wrote:

> Steven Stern wrote:
>> Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
>>> On 1/9/06, Peter Gordon <admin at ramshacklestudios.com> 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'll third it except I install to my home directory and add the manually 
> installed firefox directory to the front of my $PATH in ~/.bashrc. Adding to 
> the path allows me to easily run the newer firefox from the commandline.

It was part of a yum update for me on FC4.

Nancy
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