How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

[Temlakos]

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