Firefox and thunderbird upgrade

Today I updated to firefox and thinderbird version 2.0. I also decided to get rid of the redhat packages as the firefox and thunderbird updates are usually distributed in tarballs . Change to superuser and then issue:
rpm -e firefox thunderbird

While you're at it remove the whole old mozilla stuff as well since it's nolonger needed. On my system I had to do:
rpm -e mozilla-devel mozilla-js-debugger mozilla-dom-inspector mozilla-mail devhelp mplayerplug-in mozilla

Notice: You can get the dependencies by issuing just rpm -e mozilla, since the dependencies will keep the rpm manager from removing the package.

To remove the rpm's, Next, get rid of the old version's entries in /usr/lib/firefox-xx and /usr/lib/thunderbird-xx by:
su -c "rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox-xxx /usr/lib/thunderbird-xx"

Now extract the latest firefox and thunderbird to the preferred location by:
tar -zxvf thunderbird-2.0.tar.gz --directory /usr/lib
tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.tar.gz --directory /usr/lib

create the links to the installed applications in the /usr/bin/ directory by:
ln -s /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird
ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Testing the installation:
firefox --version
Should produce something like:
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org

Edit:- 03 September 2007:
Just after the installation I wanted to add the new calendar support to Thunderbird, and the local weather should be viewable in my new Firefox :) I just love these small application addons