You could even install the tar.gz version alongside the rpm version, just to make sure your'e happy with the tar.gz version, then remove the rpm version later. Keith On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Keith Roberts wrote:
To: suse-security@suse.com From: Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net> Subject: Re: [suse-security] Re: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey (SUSE-SA:2006:054)
Hi John. Well if you can't wait that long, try doing the following:
1. Uninstall the RPM version of Firefox.
2. Go to the Firefox website and download the latest version: firefox-1.5.0.7.tar.gz
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Unpack the firefox-1.5.0.7.tar.gz file.
to install it firefox, just run ./firefox, in the firefox directory tar created when you unpacked it.
If you run Firefox as the user that installed it, you can activate Firefox's automatic update feature. This appears under Help->Check for updates. If you are running Firefox as another person that did not install it, eg installed by root, and you are running as a normal user, this 'Help->Check for updates' feature will not be visible.
I prefer the automatic update feature of Firefox. This gets the updates 'in the background' as soon as they are released on the mozilla site. If you look under 'Edit->Preferences->Advanced-Update' you can set the automatic updates for Firefox from there.
You can create an icon in the menu editor, and for the command, just put,
'path/to/tar/unpacked/firefox/firefox'
Regards
Keith
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, John Andersen wrote:
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Why do you need 4 or 5 weeks to update YOUR error, and why does it depend on what Mozilla does?
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