Getting close here folks! Looking good.

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Nov 15 16:21:12 UTC 2006


Today Gene Heskett did spake thusly:

> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:48, Craig White wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:29 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Of course going from such an old version of firefox to a new version
>>>> may cause problems....nothing to big I hope.
>>>
>>> The old version was 1.5.0.8, it was not a fedora sourced rpm.  Once
>>> you have installed the real firefox by their installer, updates are
>>> automatic anytime there is one available.
>>
>> ----
>> most people have the good sense not to run GUI as root
>
> Chuckle, there ya go again Craig, see how you are?  I'm an old fart and
> the machine is mine...

In theory a browser exploit could wipe out your entire file system...so 
best make backups ;)

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