firefox update to 1.5.0.2 possible?

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 16:42:55 UTC 2006


On 4/14/06, Josh <islifefun1975 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I thought inspite of RPM installation, firefox should still be able to fetch
> updates. I believe the updates are only binary diffs and i do not see how
> difficult would it be to update from firefox itself.

>
> I wouldn't have to wait  for a couple of days  or weeks for fedora to
> release an security update when automatic update feature is already
> available in firefox.


I think you grossly under-estimate the effect of the differences in
compile time options between the fedora builds and the mozilla builds
and you need to adjust your expecations accordingly.

-jef




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