Firefox-2.0.0.3 vs FC6?

[Ed Greshko]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 22 March 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On 3/22/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> There is a readme.txt that point one to a web page in the download of
>>> ff-2.0.0.3-tar.gz from the ff main site.
>>>
>>> Unforch, I cannot find an install script in the archive, nor any
>>> install/update instructions on the web page.
>>>
>>> So how does one go about installing it on an FC6 box?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers, Gene
>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>>> * wichert_ imagines master without a MTA
>>> <james> wichert: ehm?  that might hinder peformance of the BTS :p
>> Would have been nice if you had check Fedora's website first. Or
>> googled "firefox+2+fedora" but anyways, here you go:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox2
> 
> Which does not of course point to an installable rpm, the link provided is 
> a 404.  I also have an alpha of ff-3, but it also has no installer.
> 
> So it appears that to install it on an FC6 system, we are going to have to 
> write our own installer.  Or wait till FC7, at which time you might deign 
> to include it.  Methinks you are throwing away a valuable testing 
> resource, your users.

Well, not everything needs an installer or rpm.

I downloaded the FF2.0.0.3 tar file, un-tar'ed it and created an icon on my 
desktop to run it.