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

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

If you want to add things to the menus, go to System menu:Preferences:Main 
Menu.  In that dialog box, you can select what is displayed in the menus as 
well as add new items to the menu.

Good luck,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henning Oschwald" <listmail hoschwald de>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT: Replacement of FF2 by FF3


> 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
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