CentOS - Jun 2007 - Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.

So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.

Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?

I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.

Some advice would be greatly appreciated.

On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:
> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
> Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing
> improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to
> look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
Actually, Firefox 2.x irritates the crap out of me with the newer
search option. Instead of /foo to search a page for foo and having the
option to find it again, you now have to hit ctrl+f, windows style for
searching. the /foo still works, but times out quickly and doesn't
give you the option to move to the next found location.

I'd say sit tight for a while on the RH version unless there's a
feature/plugin you REALLY need/want.


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Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
>> Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing
>> improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to
>> look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
>
> Actually, Firefox 2.x irritates the crap out of me with the newer
> search option. Instead of /foo to search a page for foo and having the
> option to find it again, you now have to hit ctrl+f, windows style for
> searching. the /foo still works, but times out quickly and doesn't
> give you the option to move to the next found location.
>
> I'd say sit tight for a while on the RH version unless there's a
> feature/plugin you REALLY need/want. 
OK.

What about Thuderbird 2.0?

> Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing
> improved here and wait for 3.0?
Sorry to jump in, but where is that you saw Red Hat saying "there is
nothing _improved_ in FF2"?! I suppose RHEL5 doesn't have FF2 because
"it's too new", but here is what I terribly miss while using
FF1.5:
-- saving the whole session, even when FF crashes (yes, FF _may_
crash); it saves even the text you were writing in a textarea!
-- spell-checking (extremely useful when you're not a native speaker).

But indeed is kinda shame that there isn't any 3rd party repo
providing FF2 for EL5. (I don't expect EPEL to have it. because FC6
was on FF1.5 too).

But for Thunderbird 2.0, I agree: I can't see anything _significantly_
improved.

Cheers,
R-C






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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:
> I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.
> 
> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
> 
> Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
> improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
> look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
> 
> I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
> rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.
There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean
rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?
> Some advice would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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> I have found this to be a frustrating 'option' Even when I 
> shutdown FF2 
cleanly, when I start it (even after rebooting 
> the system), it trys to 
resume my sessions...


Tools -> Options -> Main -> Startup. Under "When Firefox
starts",
change from "Show my windows and tabs from last time" to "Show a
blank page".

But again, when FF crashes, this is a very useful option to have...

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Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.
>>
>> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
>>
>> Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
>> improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
>> look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
>>
>> I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
>> rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.
>>     
>
> There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean
> rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?
>   
Yeah, I noticed no FF/TB at ATrpms, but nowhere else either.