439995 - README.TXT and release notes lack information on installing on Linux.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 358084

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Josh Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Firefox 3.0

First of all:  thanks for all your hard work, this is a great product.

After downloading firefox 3.0 from http://mozilla.com/firefox for Linux i686, I un-archived the bz2 and viewed the README.TXT to discover the proper way to upgrade from Firefox 2.  Upon viewing the readme, I discovered the following text:

For information about installing, running and configuring Firefox 
including a list of known issues and troubleshooting information, 
refer to: http://getfirefox.com/releases/

I immediately navigated to the URI above and was not able to find any documentation related to installing Firefox.  I was able to find a nifty installation (expanding) blurb through the release notes link that didn't help at all.

I would expect to see something related to the proper way to install this application from the readme.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download
2.un-tar firefox-3.0.tar.bz2
3.less README.txt
Actual Results:  
No instructions.

Expected Results:  
Detailed instructions.

Comment 1

[Dan Kegel]

I can confirm this.  In fact, a Computerweek columnist ran into this today, 
see http://blogs.computerworld.com/updating_software_in_linux_three_strikes_and_youre_out