Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 4/14/06, Josh <islifefun1975@yahoo.com> wrote: > Are you saying that fedora packaging is disabling major features of a major web > browser? I do not see how compile time options can disable an update feature. You realize that the fedora packages have patches right? > The reason for Mozilla providing binary updates is to prevent users from > fetching the entire build. If fedora cannot provide such feature, it remove > the "Check for updates" link from firefox. Users won't be misinformed that > no updates are available when security fixes are actually available. I understand the reason why mozilla does what it does. I'm telling you that binary diffs from mozilla can not be applied to fedora builds. This is an inherent limitation to how binary diffs work.. you can't take a diff meant to be applied to binary A and apply it to binary B and expect to get something functional. You seem to have a poor understanding how how diffs work and until you gain better understanding of that technology you are going to continue to misunderstand why the update mechanism that is designed specifically for mozilla.org builds and only mozilla.org builds of firefox has to be disabled. Im pretty sure the check for updates for the fedora build of firefox is there to check for updates for things like per-user installed extentions/plugins.. which can be installed by individual users into their home directories and are not packages as rpms and thus not in the system directories. Checking for those updates, is still a valid action regardless of whether firefox is built by fedora or mozilla or anyone else.. since users are going to the extentions website and installing these extentions. </islifefun1975@yahoo.com></blockquote>If fedora intends to allow updates to extensions and plugins, the term "Check for updates" should specifically say "Check updates for Plugins and Extensions". User's won't be misled into believing there are no updates to firefox itself. I do online banking and browser security matters to me. Josh <hr size=1>Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com"> Great rates starting at 1¢/min.