On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:35 AM, Temlakos wrote: > 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. > Which is not always bad, there are some issues with java for FF 3.6.*. > Temlakos > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- 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
