lol, yeah. Firefox is on my to-do list. Konqueror isn't on Gmail's "supported browser" list. But there is the Mozilla browser too... but I'll be sure to get Firefox since I use it for all my browsing on my Windows machine

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Edit: Ok, I downloaded it, but is there a "proper" place to extract it to? lol, it's the Windows user in me talking... all used to executable installers that put everything where it should be

This post has been edited by nightfox: Mar 7 2006, 03:09 AM

Have a look at the "readme" part, taken from where you took the software. On Linux exactly like on Windows, some softwares have to be put at their correct place, and some other ones have to be simply double-clicked from where they are.
Have a look at the installation guide with your Firefox distro and carefully read it. If the doc says "put the things in /usr/local et untar them", then you will have to place them in /usr/local.
If the doc says "put them in your home directory and type rpm -Uva *", then you can do it from where you prefer.
that's the funny part in the Open World : people do exactly like they prefer. There are some rules, like "use makefiles", or "create rpm packages", but it's simply a common way of doing, nobody is forced to do that way.
The only way you are forced to, is you must istall your package exactly the way how the guy who created the downloaded package wants you to install it.
else, debugging will not be very easy.

depends, if you have the tarball, extract it anywhere you want. I put it in the /opt folder.

xboxrulz

Nice to see you resolved it. For anyone else having problems, I've always found these guides stupidly easy to follow... Let's see, Ubuntu is probally the closest one they have: http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu#Hardware

Very nice site if I say so myself http://easylinux.info

(NB: I'm honestly not related to that site, it's just plan cool cause their guide worked for my nVidia on Fedora Core 4)