Why is Fedora continuing to propagate FF 3.5 on F12?

john wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 2 01:56:20 UTC 2010


On 11/01/2010 10:42 AM, dexter wrote:
> On 31 October 2010 04:58, David<dgboles at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/30/2010 11:51 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>>> F12 updated FF to version 3.5.15, however, when you start up FF on F12
>>> it tells you that FF 3.5 is out of date and you should instead download
>>> version 3.6.
>>>
>>> If FF 3.5 is out of date why continue to update it?  Why not replace it
>>> with version 3.6?
>
> Well why don't you???
> /me I'm using Firefox-4.0-b8pre this last 2 months in F12 and its very
> very fast :-)
> Security comes straight from mozilla&  before any repo esp, now the
> crazy updates policy is in force.
> Don't know how! just ask here.
>
>>
>> Since Fedora 12 is EOL in one month perhaps that would be more work than
>> can be justified?
>>
>> You could update your system to Fedora 13. Or wait until next week and
>> update to Fedora 14.
>
> Updating your whole OS just for a browser is hilarious when the source
> is available :-)
>
> ...dex

Just a little comment, you can install the Firefox beta tarball in a 
private directory and keep the Fedora Firefox in place, just in case 
you're leary of the "beta" status. These betas are very stable on my system.

Regards,

John



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