[ale] anybody know in which directory firefox should be installed ?

[Christopher R. Curzio]

> You will need to do the extension installs as root, but it makes them
> available to everyone.

That's not accurate. You don't NEED to install extensions as root. It's
just that installing as root gives the option to make them globally
available to all users. If you're not root, extensions will install
perfectly fine into the user's Firefox profile directory.

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Thus Spake "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>:
Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:44:06 -0500


> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 22:55, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > Any other hints as to how to get it going ?
> > Thanks,
> > Courtney
> 
> Un tar it as root into /usr/local/firefox and make a link from
> /usr/local/firefox/firefox to /usr/local/bin/firefox.
> 
> You will need to do the extension installs as root, but it makes them
> available to everyone.
> 
> Oh. I almost forgot. Make link from <path to icon files>/firefox to
> /usr/local/firefox/icons so it's easier to make launcher buttons.
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