question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Fri Mar 16 07:19:09 UTC 2012


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On 3/16/2012 12:08 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 02:39 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> Thanks for the confirm about what I thought. Its an interesting bind that
>> Thunderbird and Firefox can be part of a Fedora release and, once that release is
>> EOL, any changes aren't picked up (as in Abode Flash).
> I don't know what you mean by that....
>
> Adobe Flash isn't in the "Fedora Repositories" it, assuming you've installed it that
> way, is in the "Adobe Repository".  a.k.a.  /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
> and not fedora-updates.repo.

Sorry for the confusion ... what I was trying to say was that I think I 
have learned is that Firefox and Thunderbird are part of the "fedora" 
package and Abode isn't. So, at EOL, I still get updates on Abode but 
not on Firefox/Thunderbird.

Does that clear it up

Thanks,
Paul
>> Yes, I am wanting to upgrade and the Maya window is finite, so I'll do
>> mail/browsing on Windows until the beta program is over and/or the Mozilla kill
>> date in April shows up.
>



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