Installing Mozilla Firefox 3 on Gentoo 2008.0
I cannot hold myself anymore. I want Firefox 3 on my Gentoo machine ASAP. I don’t care about the feature, the risk and the hassle I might be facing installing unstable/testing application in my machine, I just want the new version on my PC! 
Using emerge to search the package
emerge --search mozilla-firefoxResult:
* www-client/mozilla-firefox
Latest version available: 2.0.0.14
Latest version installed: 2.0.0.14
Fair enough, the stable branch only have version 2.0.0.14 as the latest one. So I enable unstable/testing branch for that particular package by inserting the line below in my /etc/portage/package.keywords
www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86Do the search again
emerge --search mozilla-firefoxResult:
* www-client/mozilla-firefox
Latest version available: 3.0-r1
Latest version installed: 2.0.0.14
Size of files: 50,442 kB
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Description: Firefox Web Browser
License: || ( MPL-1.1 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 )
Nice, they have version 3.0-r1 in the repository.
After thinking for a while, I decided to proceed with the installation. Of course I have to enable some other unstable/testing packages in order to meet the dependencies.
I added those lines below in my /etc/portage/package.keywords file
net-libs/xulrunner ~x86
dev-libs/nspr ~x86
dev-libs/nss ~x86Specifying custom USE parameter in /etc/portage/package.use file
www-client/mozilla-firefox java linguas_en_US -ipv6 I don’t need IPV6
And start the installation process
emerge -av mozilla-firefoxI answered ‘yes’ when asked and the installation process started. It took almost 20 minutes for the system to compile them. When it finished, I’ve been greeted with the message below.
* Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system.
* In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs,
* the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild
* in order to remove these old dependencies. If you do not have this
* helper program, simply emerge the ‘gentoolkit’ package.
*
* # revdep-rebuild –library libnspr4.so.6
* # revdep-rebuild –library libplc4.so.6
* # revdep-rebuild –library libplds4.so.6
Ok. Some post installation works to do. But I would skip those steps for now. I will do them if I encounter any problem on other applications.
So I restarted my Firefox, went to some normal plugin/extension upgrade process and there I go, Firefox version 3 !
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Use a different font for the code sections, using Xubuntu & Firefox 3 the “~” looks like a “-”.
If someone needs help installing firefox, that someone should not be using gentoo linux in the first place.
I’ve recently changed from windows internet explorer to this Mozilla Firefox. I need to know when I’ve found the sight i like on the net, i used to add to favorites, then send icon to desktop. how do i do this with Mozilla?
My integrity means everything to me. If you don’t have integrity what do you have? I am also a very caring person, and cry watching sad movies, it sucks but I do.
I need to see him standing in front of me. You pointing out of the widow and saying “look a tree, that proves god exists” is not enough for me.
I totally agree that if someone needs help installing firefox, that someone should not be using gentoo linux in the first place.
If you have a slow connection and use older versions of windows, IE is quicker. Otherwise it’s personal preference, but Firefox gets my vote. You get far fewer viruses and spyware using Firefox.
That’s a very bad idea. You need a firewall even if it is Windows Firewall and Antivirus (use Avast if you don’t like AVG) especially if you have a direct connection to the internet.
A lot of things come in through java/activex. This basically does not allow javascript to run unless you allow it. Once you allow a site it will remember that, just allow sites you trust.