Red Hat-Firefox
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This was under Fedora Core 2 using a MS Intellimouse Explorer.
It was not properly recognized under USB, so the user had to switch to PS/2 and reboot for it to find it.
The scroll wheel did not work. I had to manually add the mouse to the x.org config file and then also do an xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" before the wheel would start scrolling. There were still some pages that did not scroll with the wheel that do under WinXP with FireFox.
Also the back button didn't work at all. Even after trying some programs to specifically make this work, the user was far too upset and frustrated from trying to get it to work, they went back to something they knew how to control... the TV.
Installation of Flash/Shockware was, not too difficult. The user was unable to complete it 100% but after some help was able to get things working right.
I am a semi-newbie linux user, and my experience with Firefox per se has been great. However, after 45 minutes of searching and guessing and reading random Linux newbie web sites I still couldn't figure out how to get Firefox to become the default browser in various applications, e.g. from my email client how do I get thunderbird to launch when I click a web link?
Answer :
My system is in french so the real name may be a bit different. Click on the red hat icon, then preferences and then favorite applications. You will be able to select a default browser, mail client, editor and terminal.
Notice that the browser icon created by Red Hat during the install doesn't lauch Mozilla but the default browser, now that you changed it, it will open Firefox.
