upgrade firefox question

[Bob Smith]

Actually, you can overwrite an old installation, or create a parallel 
installation, but upgrades are questionable.  Generally, it appears that 
the tar.gz bundles from Mozilla are complete packages.  If you do a 
parallel install, then you can import old boomarks, etc., which is often 
a safer way to install.

-Bob

Stephen W wrote:

>Using RH 9.0
>
>Downloading Firefoc 0.9 (I am presently using 0.8).  
>
>I know that with an RPM I can use the -U to tell the
>RPM to Update the existing program. 
>
>What happens when I use the *tar.gz file of firefox? 
>Will it automatically simpley UPGRADE?  Or Overwrite
>existing?  Or create a parallell install?
>
>How do I handle such a situation?
>
>Thanks
>StephenW
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