On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:25:42 +0000 Tony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to upgrade Mozilla and Firefox. Having a quick look, this > entails building Seamonkey, Mozilla's replacement (yes?). > > Anyone know of any problems doing this? Will I have to deinstall > Mozilla? Any ideas or anecdotes to share? Tony, Do you *have* to build them from source? I build almost everything from source (to get the very latest versions and to enable the features I want), *except* for Firefox et al. It is so easy to grab a live Firefox tree: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ and put the files in a /usr/local/firefox, setup a symlink from /usr/local/bin/firefox to /usr/local/firefox/firefox and be all done. I assume the same is true with seamonkey. If someone knows big advantages of building these guys from source, I'd like to hear the pros of doing so. Finally, I'm not a big seamonkey fan and was glad when they broke those different applications apart. I'd go with Firefox and Thunderbird (or some other mail client). Actually, I've been really happy with the Claws Mail (and News) client: http://www.claws-mail.org/ and I see that I am not alone in this regard: http://www.sencer.de/article/2039/welcome-claws-mail-goodbye-thunderbird Note: I you want to try Claws, be sure you first have the latest libetpan, a good mail client library it uses: http://libetpan.sourceforge.net/ before trying to build Claws. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
