Firefox crippling (was: What next?)

[Matthew Miller]

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.


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