Re: [orca-list] OT: Replacement of FF2 by FF3

[Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de>]

On Prickle-Prickle, day 28 of Confusion 3174, Robin Kipp wrote:
> I have the same question actually. In theory, you could download it,
> unpack it and maybe place a symlink in the start menu and uninstall
> Firefox 2.

Is there really somebody who executes a browser from the start menu?

What's the problem with unpacking FF3 to /usr/local/lib/firefox and
symlinking /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox to /usr/local/bin/firefox?
Finally, set it as your default browser in gnome (prefered applications)
and everything is fine.

Btw: for those using Debian Unstable, Iceweasel already uses Gecko 1.9
(read: FF3 is in unstable.) Other distributions will follow (or they
already do.)

> I have no idea how to place a new item in the start menu though...

Look at the files in /usr/share/menu/ for examples.

Or press ctrl+F10 on the desktop and select 'create launcher(?)', (not
sure about the english name, but with a german locale it's called
'Starter anlegen'. 

  Henning