latest firefox version for fc4

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Wed Jul 26 20:55:55 UTC 2006


Dan wrote:
> list user wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I had Firefox-1.0.4 on my fc4 installation, and just did a "yum update 
>> firefox".  Upon success I now have 1.0.8.
>>
>> Visiting mozilla.org I see that the current version of firefox is 
>> 1.5.0 which fixes certain security issues.
>>
>> I further note there are version numbers and release numbers.
>>
>> Could somebody shed some light on the relationship between fedora 
>> versions vis a vis mozilla versions/releases?
>>
>> Don't like running things that may have security issues :(
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mike Wright
>>
> 1.0.8 was released after 1.5.0 and probably contains the same security 
> fixes.
> As for why 1.5.0 isn't in FC5, it has dependencies (don't remember what 
> the big one was, GCC or GTK or something) that would require you to 
> basically have to upgrade to FC5.
> -Dan
> 

Not true! I'm running 1.5.0.4 on an FC3 system. Works fine.

Regards,

John




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