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Topic: FireFox 0.8 is Out! (was FireBird), Trying to download and run FireFox 0.8

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hasty

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Posted: Feb. 11 2004,18:19

Is there a genuine improvement in the browser or is it mainly cosmetic ?

Just curious and I must admit, not really bothered as three on a mini distro is almost indecent

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 11 2004,18:36

Well, firefox is slightly smaller. MozillaFirbird from download is 28MB where firefox is 27MB. But, I have already seen a rendering problem with Yahoo Mail where the text overlayed an input box.

The download scripts are easy to modify and it works including flash. Flash works.

They still use the .phoenix and .mozilla directories. With so many names I think that is confusing. You cannot run both Firebird and Firefox because of these same directories.

Alot of cosmetic changes. The dialog box have the buttons in a different layout.

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Posted: Feb. 12 2004,02:46

Mozilla posted information on their MozillaZine website:
http://www.mozillazine.org/
that there were some startup problems with the Windows version.
Don't know if that affects Linux, but the root of the problem was
old installations of phoenix, firebird, etc. that had incompatable
extensions. They do have some fixes for that problem for "Unix", so
I guess that's us.
I'll try some of that to see if I can get my downloaded FireFox 0.8 to start.
Their main recommendation is to uninstall the older versions. For us, that
would be simple, and if things don't work out, just put a good restore
tarball in your backup/restore device, and you are back where you started.
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Posted: Feb. 12 2004,04:03

Sorry for the double post above. I wondered what happened to my preview, now I know.
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Anyway, I cleaned up the scripts (again) and after deleting the /MozillaFirebird directory and the ~/.phoenix directory, I downloaded FireFox and flash. Well, I have problems with my icon part of the .firefox_grab.sh, so that isn't working, and no, I cannot start FireFox 0.8,
as per the above posts, problems with run-mozilla.sh.
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I have fully populated /opt/firefox directories, and I have no idea why it won't run.
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I was hoping to get this thing solved, and modified scripts posted, to help out on the next edition of DSL in some small way. Apparently, FireFox might not be ready for Prime-Time, so I'm sticking with MozillaFirebird 7 for now.
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It's not the scripts fault, I could have just downloaded the tarball, and placed it in /opt and unzipped it there and had the same result (without
flash). I may try that with a nightly tarball, and see if they have done anything to help me out.
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Posted: Feb. 12 2004,06:49

No problemo here, Firefox with Flash is running fine for me on my standard liveCD DSL 0.5.2 All I did was to replace all occurences of MozillaFirebird with firefox and replaced version number 7 with 8. I didn't even delete my .phoenix and .mozilla directories. Rapidweather, I cannot duplicate your problem.

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