At the moment to get 64 bit builds for Firefox 3.x I download them from
http://autofox.hendikins.id.au/firefox/trunk/

And untar to /usr/local/firefox

Then to pick up the Mandriva plugins I edit /usr/local/firefox/firefox
and copy the MOZ_PLUGIN lines from /usr/bin/firefox

ie

=========================================
MOZILLA_BIN="${progbase}-bin"

if [ "$OSTYPE" = "beos" ]; then
=========================================

becomes

=========================================
MOZILLA_BIN="${progbase}-bin"

export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

if [ "$HOME" ]; then
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH:$HOME/.mozilla/plugins
fi

if [ "$OSTYPE" = "beos" ]; then
=========================================

Lordy

lordy wrote:
> At the moment to get 64 bit builds for Firefox 3.x I download them from
> [..]
<snip>

Why not use the 64-bit Firefox 3.x provided by mandriva?

jim b.

On 2008-07-30, Jim Beard <jdbeard> wrote:
> lordy wrote:
>> At the moment to get 64 bit builds for Firefox 3.x I download them from
>> [..]
><snip>
>
> Why not use the 64-bit Firefox 3.x provided by mandriva?
>

[blush] Because , for some reason I was scrolling right past it in mcc and never
noticed it before! I wonder if it will nuke my 2.0.0.16 firefox (which I
have to fall back to sometimes)..

Lordy

lordy wrote:
> On 2008-07-30, Jim Beard <jdbeard> wrote:
>> lordy wrote:
>>> At the moment to get 64 bit builds for Firefox 3.x I download them from
>>> [..]
>> <snip>
>>
>> Why not use the 64-bit Firefox 3.x provided by mandriva?
>>
>
> [blush] Because , for some reason I was scrolling right past it in mcc and never
> noticed it before! I wonder if it will nuke my 2.0.0.16 firefox (which I
> have to fall back to sometimes)..

No, but switching back and forth between them will necessitate a
check by Firefox to see if all extensions are supported. When
going from FF2 to FF3, this check hangs I think while checking
the Chinese or maybe Vietnamese language extensions. I have to
click the cancel button, and FF3 then loads.

You have to check your icons to see which each one loads, and
modify as you want them. I have FF2 on my main toolbar, and
FF3 on a secondary.

There are things you can do with FF profiles to rearrange things
each time you switch versions, described on the Mandriva web
site I think, but I have not bothered to go to that much trouble.

Your system default browser is set by www-browser, and you may
need to tinker with that if it does not provide what you want.

And KDE Control Center/KDE Components/Components Chooser/Web Browser
has a setting for its default browser. I actually have this set to
Epiphany, so if I click on a URL in an e-mail in Thunderbird, I get a
browser that will not be still up after entering a login name and
password at some site visited earlier.

Do keep Firefox 2 on the system if you have the Gnome desktop, as
some of the Gnome software piggy-backs on Firefox 2.

Cheers!

jim b.

lordy wrote:

> [blush] Because , for some reason I was scrolling right past it in
> [mcc and never
> noticed it before! I wonder if it will nuke my 2.0.0.16 firefox
> (which I have to fall back to sometimes)..

This was with distro repository installs.

FF 3 install doesn't remove FF 2 in any buntu's or Mnadriva I've
installed it to, and for how to tell the difference between FF 2
icon's and FF 3 is 3 is being named "Firefox Web Browser" and FF 2 is
named plain "Firefox" with each FF icon, and in the Internet program
group.

The add-ons, themes, and other settings and boomarks are being shared
or are used with FF3 install.