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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of albi@scii.nl
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:02 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:41:52 +0100
> Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to
> > install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've
> > looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the
> > product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently).
> 
> 
> 1) if you want to use the plain FreeBSD-version you have basically 2
> (easy) options :
> a) if you're sticking to RELEASE, a pkg_add -r firefox should work
> b) cd /usr/ports/www/firefox/ ; make install clean
> 

Do a portupgrade first.  Firefox depends on a lot of stuff.

> 2) if you want to use the linux-version, check the /usr/ports/www/
> linux-firefox port
>

You don't want to use this version.  It's slower.

Ted