Security of Firefox (was Re: VDQ : Firefox, Fedora -- and yum?)

[Rickey Moore]

--- beartooth <beartooth at adelphia.net> wrote:

> I've since gotten a CERT alert, available at
> 
> http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html
> 
> and it still reads, to me, as if the problem is in (mozilla and)
> firefox,
> *not* in M$. Am I missing something, or is this infelicitous
> wording in
> the alert, or what? yum update firefox still doesn't get 1.5 --
> i.e., 1.5
> seems not to be on the repos ....

I dnloaded firefox 1.5.1 tar.gz several weeks ago, and just stuck it
in a directory and created a link  /usr/bin/firefox pointing to my
directory in /usr/share where i unpacked it and installed it to...
works great. I was impatient waiting for an rpm update... so I
handled it. <g>  Make sure to rpm -e your old firefox packages, which
didn't seem to erase my personal files. The newer firefox is also
seems to run faster. I like it, plus I can use the newer extensions
to adblock and do other nifty stuff. Ric


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