At 12:04 AM 8/18/05 -0400, you wrote:
On 8/17/05, matt-nc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I downloaded and unzipped and untarred the files for Firefox and
Thunderbird.  Now what? 


I did as you did and then created shortcuts on the desktop.  This works if you are the only user.


Okay, I did the "quick and dirty" solution and all is working well, except for default behavior.  When I click on a link in an email I get the Epiphany browser.

Is there any way (while I have these programs in my personal home directory) to specify Firefox as default browser when clicking on a link in an email?  It doesn't show up in the Gnome Config choices.

And same for Thunderbird, I would like to specify it as default mail client when clicking on an email address in Firefox.  I haven't actually tried doing that yet to see what happens but I suspect it will be some other system-wide client that comes up.

Would Stephen Kuhn's method be the solution to this?  As he said:
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What I've done in that particular circumstance is to create a /usr/local/firefox and /usr/local/thunderbird - and then to create a link to both in the /usr/bin directory . . .
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Otherwise, I guess the easiest solution is to do the urpmi install and then the choices will automatically be available.

Thanks,
Matt

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