On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 18:57 +0100, Cam wrote: > Jeff > > Let's recap. It sounds like Mozilla's updates are binary patches which > won't work on Fedora's builds. It sounds like it's not a worthwhile task > for Fedora to replicate Mozilla's efforts to provide updates... > > > We are NOT talking about user's extentions. Let me re-iterate, the > > user-installed extentions updates should still work in fedora's > > firefox build. Stop dragging the non-issue of user installed > > extentions into this thread. You are only confusing yourself and other > > potential readers. > > When I update from Mozilla, it checks compatability of installed third > party extensions. That's part of the value of the Mozilla update that > you miss out on if you use rpm updates. In a worst case scenario I might > use an rpm update and find that my 3rd party extensions have stopped > working. > > I'll ask again, is there a way to provide a smooth transition from the > default Fedora Firefox to a Mozilla self updating one? The reason I'm > asking is because I imagine a significant number of users might want to > do that. > You have already been told how to do that. 1. yum erase firefox 2. install the mozilla version 3. update away from mozilla. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list