On 03/31/2010 11:10 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:23 -0500, Michael Bullington wrote: > > To whom it shall concern, > > I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox > because the "Check for Updates" menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. > > The information from Mozilla states I need to have sufficient access > authority to be able to "Check for Updates". > > How can I do this with Fedora 12? > > I feel I should have the ability to start Firefox and be able to "Check for > Updates" as I please and *NOT WHAT SOMEBODY AT RED HAT OR FEDORA WANTS ME TO > DO THINGS!* > > Then install Firefox from scratch, rather than using the Fedora > packages. > > If you were to use the link to manually update Firefox, you'd get a > version that wasn't packaged for Fedora. It could interfere with the > packaged version that you have installed, and it wouldn't interact with > the packaging system to connect the update to other packages. > > Do you find that Fedora packagers aren't releasing updates in a timely > fashion? Or is this simply a matter of principle for you? > This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has version 3.6.2 out. Temlakos -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
