Would Firefox 1.5 present in update release repos. of Fedora Core 4 ?

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Jan 9 17:47:27 UTC 2006


Wong Kwok-hon wrote:

>On 1/9/06, Peter Gordon <admin at ramshacklestudios.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 05:06 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
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>>>As Firefox 1.5 release for a while, would it present in update release
>>>to update the current 1.0.x ?
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>>As mentioned in various places on the forums [1][2] and mailing list
>>[3], Firefox 1.5 is in the Rawhide (development) tree, which you have
>>the option of enabling if you want to help test, debug, and develop
>>Fedora Core further[4]. (Please note that you should probably not do
>>this on a production box, as it can potentially be *very* unstable,
>>though there are those who use it as their primary system.)
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>>[1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=88274
>>[2] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=90232
>>[3] http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-December/msg00638.html
>>[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/TestingGuide
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>>Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
>>GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7
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>So How long would it take in test ?
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My suggestion is to go to mozilla.org and get the tarball and put it in 
/usr/local/.  That way you can choose to use the FC4 version or this new 
one.
And the new one is *much* faster.

Greg




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