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

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Mar 31 21:43:21 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 31 March 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
>On 31 March 2010 10:24, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Suvayu Ali wrote:
[...]
>> What does this application do, and why should I be concerned that it
>> cannot detect the latest jre available as being installed?
>
>My point was FF 3.6.* has some unresolved issues with java. I'm
>forgetting the exact nature of the problems but it has been discussed
>on this list about the time FF 3.6 was released.
>
>That particular application is an open source web collaboration tool
>which was meant to be an example of the java problems I mentioned
>earlier. FWIW this works just fine on FF 3.5.* hence my statement
>newer doesn't always mean better.
>
I see, but then firefox had a few vulnerabilities in the earlier version, 
and they were rather adamant we should update.  And no new fixes now for 3 
or 4 days, I would think, and hope, they are aware of it.  Not that the lack 
is bothering me very much.

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Cheers, Gene
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