--- beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've since gotten a CERT alert, available at > > http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html > > and it still reads, to me, as if the problem is in (mozilla and) > firefox, > *not* in M$. Am I missing something, or is this infelicitous > wording in > the alert, or what? yum update firefox still doesn't get 1.5 -- > i.e., 1.5 > seems not to be on the repos .... I dnloaded firefox 1.5.1 tar.gz several weeks ago, and just stuck it in a directory and created a link /usr/bin/firefox pointing to my directory in /usr/share where i unpacked it and installed it to... works great. I was impatient waiting for an rpm update... so I handled it. <g> Make sure to rpm -e your old firefox packages, which didn't seem to erase my personal files. The newer firefox is also seems to run faster. I like it, plus I can use the newer extensions to adblock and do other nifty stuff. Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
