Re: firefox update

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all, i filed on bugzilla...should get done pretty soon?

--- nigel henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday 09 June 2006 19:59, John Wendel wrote:
> > James Wilkinson wrote:
> > > Globe Trotter wrote:
> > >> just wondering when the updated firefox rpm will show up? as many as
> > >> 13(?) patches were issued more than a week ago to get firefox 1.5.0.4.
> > >
> > > There's a related story on lwn.net about Firefox updates:
> > > http://lwn.net/Articles/186614/
> >
> > As we rednecks like to say, "the lord helps those who help themselves".
> >
> > Just yum remove firefox, install the 1.5.0.4 tarball in /usr/local,
> > and be happy.
> >
> > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master--and if you use the
> > program, he is your master.", RMS.
> >
> > "Every RPM package has a lord, a master--and if you use the package,
> > he is your master.", Me.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John
> 
> Hi John. I've been doing just that with earlier versions of FC. I DL the 
> latest version to whatever is booted up, copy it to my fat32 partition on 
> another disc that I keep backups on, and then update Firefox to the various 
> distro's run on these 2 machines. Of course Firefox is not installed as part 
> of the distro on earlier FCversions, so this is the way I do it. 
> 
> I have to admit that my Debian Sarge install is still stuck at Firefox 1.0.4,
> 
> which is ridiculous, and I don't use it. I have the latest version of Opera 
> on that.
> 
> I don't suppose we want to get too paranoid about this. MS take ages to fix 
> problems to IE. Linux by contrast is usually quick with security fixes. 
> Personally, as a home user, I'm prepared to wait a bit. As Firefox is now 
> part of the FC5 distro, I'd expect them to be pretty quick on making the 
> latest version available, and will avoid me having to update Firefox manually
> 
> on yet another distro. I will keep an eye on how long it takes for 
> Firefox-1.5.0.4 to appear on the list of updates though.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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