[nflug] firefox update

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Tue Apr 18 16:18:10 EDT 2006


David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> --- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
>   
>> Related issue:
>> Can someone tell me how to properly install Firefox and Thunderbird
>> in 
>> root land (I currently have them installed in my personal user 
>> directory) and then how to do the updates for plugins, etc.  I'm on 
>> Mandrake 9.1 and install from tarballs.  Haven't had much luck with 
>> rpm's, my distro is too old.
>>
>>     
>
> Have you considered moving up to a more recent distro?  like whatever
> mandrakesoft (or mandriva) has,  or ubuntu, or FC5.  I'd personally
> recommend ubuntu as it was dead easy to install and update, as I
> recently did a duron 900 mhz box (went from win2k to Linux for a family
> member) with ubuntu 5.10 (stable) and it runs great on it.
>
>
>
> Dave J. Andruczyk
>
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Love to .... But need new iron first.  This system works great, but it's 
a PII 266MHz with 128MB.
One of these days (hopefully soon) I'll get a new computer.

Joe
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