Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Xaos Katawin wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:50:17AM +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
>  
>
> > If you didn't care about whether other users could access it, you could just 
> > untar the whole thing in your $HOME and link to it there.
> >    
>
> Right...
>
> This is almost what I did.  I just put it into every $HOME directory
> (only 4 of the suckers).  Anyway, I had another problem with Firefox
> locking up as soon as someone typed on the keyboard.  Only root was
> unaffected.  As soon as I put the whole shooting match into the
> $HOME all my problems went away.
>
>
>  
If you put it into say,  /usr/local and "ln -s 
/usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/", when a user fires it up, it 
creates a .firefox directory in the user's home directory if one does 
not already exist, each user can then choose which plugins, extensions, 
themes etc. she wants.
Regards
Sid.

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