** Reply to message from Rich Renomeron <renomero@toad.net> on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:58:39 -0500 > Randall J. Parr wrote: > > > I'd like to upgrade to Mozilla 1.2.1 BUT am concerned that I will > > break things > > [given all the "integration", "bastardization", and "incompleteness" > > of the RH8 desktop] > > > > I'd like the new features but I don't want to break things (esp not > > up2date). > > > > Any opinions as to the safety (or benefit) of upgrading RH8 to Mozilla > > 1.2.1? I've upgraded to 1.2.1 with no ill effects on my RH8 box. > > I don't think the upgrade to 1.2.1 will break anything, as long as you > upgrade Galeon to a compatible release at the same time, but I haven't > tried it. Doing an rpm -q --whatrequires mozilla shows that only galeon > and mozilla-* packages depend on it. The "Web Browser" icon belongs to > the htmlview package. > > You could always stick Mozilla 1.2.1 in /usr/local, as I have, and it > shouldn't break anything that depends on Mozilla 1.0.1. You can even > make the "Web Browser" desktop icons point to it by placing the line > > X11BROWSER=/usr/local/mozilla-1.2.1/mozilla > > (or whatever the path to your mozilla is) in a file called > /etc/htmlview.conf or ~/.htmlviewrc (depending on whether you want to > make this system-wide or per-user). Thanks for this, Rich. Declaring the variable now. > > (And galeon fans, you can use this very same trick to make galeon the > default web browser, too.) > > Hopefully, in 8.1, Red Hat will do something as clever as > /usr/bin/htmlview for the standard e-mail client. Those who want a skinaable, fast, feature-rich browser amy want to play with the new Phoenix 0.5. It has become my standard browser. jb -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
