On 2008-06-24, Sinister Midget <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On 2008-06-24, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> * Sinister Midget peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>> On 2008-06-24, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>>>
>>>> Firefox 3 Hits 17.3 Million Downloads
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Since launch last week in excess of 17.3 million downloads of Firefox 3 have
>>>>| taken place.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,147422-c,mozilla/article.html
>>>
>>> It's a pain in the Flatfish to get it to run on 64-bit Etch. Unless
>>> somebody knows a secret that I haven't been able to find.
>>>
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> As I said, though, if somebody knows a workaround for 64-bit Etch, I'll
>>> take it. I sure haven't been able to googoo one that works.
>>
>> I'm just sitting tight for now, meself. Too many other flatfish to fry.
>
> I finally got it to /start/ a build of the source. It took a few tries
> to get it to get past the configure stage. Then it failed at the
> beginning of the build on a dev package that it *should* have already
> set up when I used "apt-get build-dep firefox". We'll have to see how
> it goes from here.
No go. It fails at the step of building xul. Disabled that. Then it
failed at some other step. I deleted the whole schmear and decided to
wait for my mind to cahnge on which distro I want installed, and look
for one with FF3. Unless this one adds it before I change my mind.
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