Jeremy Huntwork wrote:

> I think Andrew has a very good point on this one. There is that whole
> section in the BLFS pages called "Command Explanations" that is being
> generally wasted, especially in this case. On the Firefox page, there is
> *one* description listed for the sed that is used. All those switches
> that we expect the users to just do and we give them no reason why we've
> chosen that set of commands or what they do. If we don't give them
> reasons for what they're doing but just give them commands to run and
> expect them to run it verbatim, we just end up creating lemmings out of
> our readers.  Looking elsewhere (I just chose a random page) I see the
> "Command Explanations" section used for stuff like this:

The Firefox instructions also say:

 The configuration of Firefox is very similar to Mozilla-1.7.11  and
hence the options are not discussed. Refer to the Mozilla-1.7.11
instructions for explanations and additional configuration information.

  -- Bruce
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