On Fri, 27/10/06, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Arch Willingham <arch <at> tuparks.com> writes: >> According to the link below, Firefox 2 is (or will be) available > (http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=35772) >> >> Will YUM pick that up eventually or do you have to add the package manually? > > Rémi Collet has made a backport of Firefox 2 to FC4, FC5 and FC6: > http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2006/10/25/225-firefox-20-1 > (His repository is only for i386, so if you're on another architecture, you'll > have to rebuild from the SRPMs: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/SRPMS/ .) > > These packages replace the Firefox 1.5 (or 1.0 for FC4) packages. Thus, on FC6, > you'll also need the rebuilt reverse dependencies (packages depending on > Firefox) if you use any of them or rebuild them yourself from the Fedora SRPMs, > because packages using Firefox as their Gecko runtime engine only work with the > version of Firefox they were built against. (On FC4 and FC5, these packages are > built against Mozilla 1.7, so updating Firefox doesn't require rebuilds there.) > > Kevin Kofler I'm using FC5. I also verified F2 from remi is excellent in displaying Chinese. In F1.5, when changing gtk2 themes it takes a lot of cpu and time for firefox to pick up the theme change. This issue has been fixed in F2. Kudos to Remi. -- Leo
