Mozilla & Firefox

[Eric D]

So does this mean that Mozilla and FireFox are mutually exclusive. You can 
have the one installed, but not the other?

Eric.

>From: Olaf Olson <oolson at hadleyconnection.com>
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:04:36 -0700
>
>Eric,
>
>There's supposed to be a method for installing Mozilla 1.7 and I think 1.8, 
>too. Check the archives of this list and the General list for the 
>announcement. I've never been able to make it work and there is currently 
>no YUM repository with a newer version than 1.6. If you do a yum upgrade 
>mozilla, you'll get that version if freshrpms is in your yum.conf file.
>
>I have found that removing mozilla and installing firefox gives you the 1.7 
>equivalent browser, but you have to use an external e-mail client. I was 
>using Thunderbird, with a different browser, and find that it still works 
>fine with Firefox, is more current for both the browser and email 
>applications than the current yum-able mozilla, installs with yum, and just 
>generally works well.
>
>yum remove mozilla
>yum install firefox
>yum install thunderbird
>
>Removing mozilla does not delete user profiles. The new Firefox and 
>Thunderbird recognize the old mozilla profiles and stuff, so you still will 
>get continuity.
>
>Olaf

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