Hi,
It is also very easy to add an entry to the menus if you
would like. By
doing this, you don't run into problems with all of the
output from the
Firefox error stream or need to redirect the error stream to
/dev/null.
Assume that you have put your firefox into a directory under
your home
directory, such as /home/my-dir/firefox/. (In my case, it
is
/home/deprice/firefox/.) Go to the System menu, into the
Preferences menu,
and select "Main Menu". A dialog box will open
and you will be located in a
tree view that contains all of the menus. If you want to put
the new entry
into the "Internet menu", move down through the
list until you find that
entry. Hit the Tab key once and you will be in a list box of
the entries in
that menu. (You can check or uncheck entries that you want
to have
displayed in the menu in this list.) Hit the Tab key twice
more and you
will land on the "New Item" button. Hit Enter to
activate this control and a
new dialog box will appear. The field you arrive in is the
name field--type
the name you want to have displayed in the menu, such as
Firefox 3. Hit Tab
and you land in the "Command" field. Type in the
path to your Firefox
executable--given the path above, you would type in
/home/my-dir/firefox/firefox. (In my case, it is
/home/deprice/firefox/firefox). Hit Tab twice and you can
add a comment if
you want (such as "Web Browser", but this is not
required). Tab three more
times and hit Enter on the "OK" button. At this
point, you'll return to the
first dialog box. Hit the Tab key until you land on the
"Close" button,
then hit enter. The Firefox 3 menu item will be in your
Internet menu under
the Applications menu.
Hope this helps,
dave
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown.com>
To: <orca-listgnome.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] getting the latest firefox
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> Yeah, I believe there is some stuff at the orca wiki -
the usual
> prefix for the gnome wiki ending with Orca/Firefox.
>
> But what I did simply enough was to download the latest
nightly build
> from ftp.mozilla.org and extract the archive into a
stand-alone
> directory on your system and then run 'firefox' from
that location.
> Furthermore, I just went into /usr/local/bin and
created a sym link to
> the firefox in the recently downloaded directory. So
now I can just
> type firefox from any terminal or use the menu pointers
that were
> already there from the dropline-gnome setup I use.
>
> Fortunately, the single directory solutions works and
seems to have no
> dependencies on outside things that I don't have.
>
> HTH.
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:45:33PM -0700, Donald Raikes
wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I installed Oracle enterprise linux last night (for
the fourth time  ).
>> I ran all the available updates using yum from the
oracle unbreakable
>> linux network.
>>
>> The version of firefox installed is 1.5.0. I know
that firefox 3.0 has a
>> lot of accessibility enhancements, so I would like
to install it.
>>
>> I have tried using yum to pull from the fedora
development repository,
>> but I get a ton of missing dependency errors so yum
just gives up.
>>
>> Are there manual installation instructions for
firefox?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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