latest firefox version for fc4

[Dan]

John Wendel wrote:
> 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
>
Well I mean for them to package it with the packages for FC4. Otherwise 
they would have.
-Dan