Mozilla & Firefox

[Olaf Olson]

As they are separate executables, I should think they don't interfere, 
but, since they access the same profiles, etc., they should definitely 
not run simultaneously. I also suspect that you wouldn't really want to 
do that anyway. That's why I suggested removing mozilla and installing 
firefox and thunderbird. If you're not using mozilla for e-mail, then 
don't install thunderbird and be happy with the mozilla browser without 
the added bulk, aka. firefox.

Olaf

Eric D wrote:

> 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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