Installing Firefox 1.5 under FC3/FC4

[taharka]

Howdy,

Chris Spencer wrote:

> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
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>> Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
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>>> (Please CC me as I have mail delivery disabled from this list)
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>>> I wish there was a FF1.5 RPM other than the one in Rawhide.. that 
>>> one depends on so much new stuff it isn't even funny. I got it to 
>>> run in an slightly more gentlemanly way than /usr/local:
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>> http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2005-December/013652.html 
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> When I tried installing that, I was told I had a newer version of 
> Firefox installed, even though rpm -q firefox gives me 
> "firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4". Strange.
>
> That page says they removed the cairo and pango dependencies. Does 
> this mean this package won't support the new SVG and canvas features?
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> Also, many have asked why Fedora has not yet adopted Firefox 1.5, yet 
> no one's really given an explanation. It's been out for over a month 
> now, and I've been using it on other distros and even Windows without 
> issue. Is 1.5 difficult to package, unstable, not fully tested, or what?
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> Chris
>
Want to try my Firefox 1.5 custom built rpm? If so, send me a private 
email requesting it & I'll send it to you A.S.A.P. It's for FC3 so, YMMV 
if using FC4 ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.