firefox-1.5.0.4 (still)

[Steve Snyder]

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 12:16 pm, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon at fedoraproject.org>
>
> wrote:
> > Hello there:
> >
> > Any good reason why FC5 is still on firefox-1.5.0.4
> > (the one with
> > remote execution vulnerability) many weeks after
> > 1.5.0.5 (and now
> > 1.5.0.6) have been available?
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Konstantin Ryabitsev
> > Montréal, Québec
> >
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> Konstantin,
>
>    One good reason is that the new firefox releases
> 1.5.0.5 and 1.5.0.6 have not been tested enough.  Just
> as 1.5.0.5 was released soon 1.5.0.6 followed quickly.
>  It will be a matter of time, but they'll be
> available.  Hopefully 1.5.0.6 to be current.

The difference is that 1.5.0.5 fixed a dozen security flaws and many misc. 
bugs, where 1.5.0.6 fixed only the inability to play a certain type of 
video clips.  The 2 releases are hardly comparable in their importance.

If we're going to wait until a program the size of Firefox is bug-free it 
will be a very long wait.