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. > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
