Firefox 2.0 - Page 2

drew and not u · October 25th, 2006

Yeah, it's definitely a final release now. When I downloaded it after I first saw this thread, it was still in RC3.

yurimxpxman · October 25th, 2006

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Originally Posted by drew and not u

Yeah, it's definitely a final release now. When I downloaded it after I first saw this thread, it was still in RC3.

Yeah... same here. That was really weird. I sure hope Fedora Core 6 includes Firefox 2. They were released the same day, so I sure hope it does LOL

I really like Firefox 2, but I had to delete my application data folder to get it working correctly. The extensions I was using before screwed FF up when I installed the new version.

Man... you never realize how many ads the internet has until they come back! LOL

**gvblake22** · October 25th, 2006

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Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

Man... you never realize how many ads the internet has until they come back! LOL

Amen to that! :doh:

yurimxpxman · October 25th, 2006

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Originally Posted by gvblake22

Amen to that! :doh:

They're all gone now though. I re-installed AdBlock Plus :P

**gvblake22** · October 29th, 2006

I think it is definately offical now :thumb:

screwballl · October 29th, 2006

I followed all the instructions but for some reason my Ubuntu still only sees it as 1.5.0.7... strange....

**gvblake22** · October 29th, 2006

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Originally Posted by screwballl

I followed all the instructions but for some reason my Ubuntu still only sees it as 1.5.0.7... stange....

Strange for sure. Not sure what to tell you about that. Does it have the different interface with the close X buttons on every tab and the spell checker function?

screwballl · October 29th, 2006

aha I just did some digging and turns out that Ubuntu has 2 different locations for firefox. One is a hidden folder on the desktop or close to the top of the tree.
I dug some and found FF in the usr/share/firefox directory... so I switched to root (to do it the GUI way since I have no clue about the terminal command) and copied the unzipped firefox folder to the /usr/share folder... worked fine in root but when I switched back to my login it would open but nothing worked properly. No bookmarks, prompt windows empty...
So a little further digging turns out that the hidden file/folder has the symbolic link to the real FF executable... all I did was go to the Blue Orb thing and went to its properties and changed it to /user/share/firefox/firefox and now it works perfectly. It still has my old bookmarks and saved passwords and whatnot. Although no plugins... thats the next step.

yurimxpxman · October 29th, 2006

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Originally Posted by screwballl

I followed all the instructions but for some reason my Ubuntu still only sees it as 1.5.0.7... stange....

This is because your copy of FF2 has been installed to a different directory than your 1.5.0.7 installation. I can't speak for Ubuntu, but by default, Fedora keeps FF in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7 or /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.7 for either the 32bit or 64bit version, respectively.

Check to see if /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7 exists. If so, extract FF2 to your desktop, open terminal, and run this:

Code:

# Become root
su -

<enter>

# Copy the files
cp /home/USERNAME/Desktop/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7

Panda Man · October 31st, 2006

A few of my favorite extensions only support 2.0 now. I can't seem to install any of them on my lappy without having to upgrade. Oh well, not like I was not going to upgrade anyways :flame:

October 29th, 2006	#16
screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,278 Blog Entries: 6	I followed all the instructions but for some reason my Ubuntu still only sees it as 1.5.0.7... strange.... Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

October 29th, 2006	#18
screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,278 Blog Entries: 6	aha I just did some digging and turns out that Ubuntu has 2 different locations for firefox. One is a hidden folder on the desktop or close to the top of the tree. I dug some and found FF in the usr/share/firefox directory... so I switched to root (to do it the GUI way since I have no clue about the terminal command) and copied the unzipped firefox folder to the /usr/share folder... worked fine in root but when I switched back to my login it would open but nothing worked properly. No bookmarks, prompt windows empty... So a little further digging turns out that the hidden file/folder has the symbolic link to the real FF executable... all I did was go to the Blue Orb thing and went to its properties and changed it to /user/share/firefox/firefox and now it works perfectly. It still has my old bookmarks and saved passwords and whatnot. Although no plugins... thats the next step. Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

October 31st, 2006	#20
Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,910	A few of my favorite extensions only support 2.0 now. I can't seem to install any of them on my lappy without having to upgrade. Oh well, not like I was not going to upgrade anyways :flame: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD Last edited by gvblake22; November 5th, 2006 at 19:58.

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October 25th, 2006	#11
drew and not u 4GHz or Bust Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: A different kind of Green Computing Posts: 2,110	Yeah, it's definitely a final release now. When I downloaded it after I first saw this thread, it was still in RC3.

October 29th, 2006	#15
gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 6,476 Blog Entries: 1	I think it is definately offical now :thumb: