Debian Package Management and Firefox

[Anton Markov]

Hello guys,

Well, I've been running Debian now for two weeks, and I love it,
especially the package management system! Except for one thing:

Now that Firefox 0.8 browser (Mozilla Firebird 0.8 renamed) (YAY!) has
come out along with Thunderbird 0.5 e-mail client, I want to install
them on my system. For now I just decompressed them to a folder in my
home directory and run them from there, but I want to make them the
default browser/e-mail.

I have read about the update-alternatives command, but I am not very
clear whether it will work with a non-dpkg'ed application (there are no
Firefox packages for Debian that I know of).  Any suggestions are
appreciated.


P.S. The Firefox website:
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/>

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