How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

Mat Booth fedora at matbooth.co.uk
Mon Feb 1 20:22:19 UTC 2010


On 1 February 2010 19:23, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Mat Booth <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 30 January 2010 22:57, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 22:37 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>>>> Maybe but I agree with Braden: I don't think it's worth it. Seems like
>>>> a lot of extra work for not a lot of gain.
>>> Running a fully updated system, I upgraded to firefox-3.6 in rawhide
>>> today, and it only updated 3 (firefox, xulrunner, and some other that I
>>> don't recall) and everything working just fine.
>> For now...
>>
>> Really, you should be using Remi's repository. He has a build of 3.6 for F12:
>>
>> http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/12/remi/x86_64/repoview/firefox.html
>>
>> But you mistook my comment. That comment was in reference to
>> maintaining two versions of xulrunner.
>
>
> These RPMS still appear to be using an internal copy of libogg and
> libtheora which is currently identical to upstream code which is
> already shipped in Fedora.
>

Well, you either want Firefox 3.6 or you don't.

I'm not advocating using a package that's not shipped by the distro,
just pointing out where the best (IMHO) place to get it from is, if
you wanted it.

-- 
Mat Booth


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