On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:25:12AM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > The firefox crippling is the result of %patch25-29 in the src.rpm: it > removes the functionality which allows to update extensions with > potential security leaks, and it replaces the nice looking default > icons with butt-ugly icons from a Gnome2 theme. > > There exists a better patch for the first issue (which disables only > the capability to upgrade the application but still allows to update > extensions) but it is silently ignored by the firefox maintainer. That'd be: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136080> To be a little more fair to the RH firefox maintainer, he's waiting for a better-designed updates infrastructure from the upstream project. But I think that's a bit over-optimistic and would really appreciate it if the less-intrusive replacement patch were swapped in in the meantime. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
