How do I start Firefox 4 from KMenu?

[bruce_m]

How do I start Firefox 4 from KMenu when I downloaded and installed Firefox4.0.tar.bz2 (only launches from terminal), and 'apt-get' installs Firefox 3.6.15 even though I tried to "--purge" it from Linux?

I downloaded and installed Firefox 4 RC using tar.bz2 so that I could still use Firefox 3.6.15 as per normal, having to start Firefox 4 using the terminal which worked great (except for many videos on different websites which just showed a blank, blank screen). When Firefox 4 was released, I suppose I was in a hurry to get it to work like normal from my menu, but it kept saying that 3.6.15 was the latest version (I'll be quite embarrassed if it wasn't available for Linux users - I do love Firefox!). I did something silly, like purge Firefox from my operating system (Kubuntu 10.10) and when I reinstalled it was still 3.6.15 (it wasn't really downloading, but unpacking). Am I in too much of a hurry or is there a fix-it? I can use Firefox 4, but only through the terminal and I suspect it is slower than it should be. I would like only one version now.

[kc1di]

Re: How do I start Firefox 4 from KMenu?

Hi
In order to add firefox4 to your menu when you've installed it out side of apt-get.

you right click on the K Menu icon go to edit menu and make the changes there. you can either edit the firefox 3.6 menu entry and point it to firefox4 or create a new menu entry for firefox4 and leave the 3.6 entry, though I would find that confusing at times.

If you want updates to ff4 you'll need to add the appropriate repository see the following thread for info on how to do that

then you can just upgrade the ff 3.6 to ff4 good luck
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3116096.0

[kapil]

Re: How do I start Firefox 4 from KMenu?

use the command line.. it is simplest and the best way.
if you have minefield (i.e. firefox beta) installed, please remove that.. and run this in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

bingo!

[bruce_m]

Re: How do I start Firefox 4 from KMenu?

Fantastic! Thanks very much for your help!