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

[Steven Stern]

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.

-- 

   Steve