On Ubuntu, I made a move to using Ubuntuzilla’s deployment of Firefox. Because Firefox’s Gecko engine is used by other parts of Ubuntu, any Firefox updates issued by Mozilla don’t come through straight away. The idea of using Ubuntuzilla is that you get Mozilla’s latest, be it Firefox, Thunderbird or Seamonkey, without having an impact on the rest of the Linux installation; Ubuntu’s Firefox is left in place but you are now presented with the vanilla Firefox for all your web surfing needs. Visually, there’s not much change but for the built-in Firefox application fonts coming through in the new instance, a strange sight when you see Ubuntu’s more subtle alternatives everywhere else. I tried the new tack to see if picked up RealPlayer in place of Xine but that sadly has not been the case. Nevertheless, I now have 2.0.0.9 and the latest improvements this side of version 3.
A different Firefox…
Saturday, November 17th 2007
Topics: Linux, Site News, Web Development, Web Tools, Windows
Tags: deployment, Firefox, Fonts, Gecko, Linux, Mozilla, RealPlayer, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Ubuntu, Web Browsers, Xine
Tags: deployment, Firefox, Fonts, Gecko, Linux, Mozilla, RealPlayer, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Ubuntu, Web Browsers, Xine
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