Fritz Hudnut composed on 2023-06-22 11:42 (UTC-0700):
For those of us residing in the great unwashed end user realm . . . does this now mean that running a dup in TW or Gecko rolling will now provide the fixed Firefox?? Or we still would have to download the rpm from mozilla and install it??
Your package management system installs applications from rpms provided by openSUSE mirrors. Such installations depend on system provided libraries, and show up in application menus automatically. They default to the application's automatic updating being totally disabled, impossible to enable, so that the package management system can do its job. Mozilla provides archived self-contained (static) binaries to extract into /home, /opt or /usr/local. Usually it's up to you to determine how to facilitate starting them. They do not appear in the distro's package managment database. Most default to automatically updating under the covers so that you don't even know if or when updating happens, except by checking what is the currently installed version. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata