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

Wong Kwok-hon kwokhon at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 01:32:35 UTC 2006


On 1/11/06, Nancy Merckle <nancym at fellspt.charm.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Adam Gibson wrote:
>
> > Steven Stern wrote:
> >> Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> >>> On 1/9/06, Peter Gordon <admin at ramshacklestudios.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 05:06 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> As Firefox 1.5 release for a while, would it present in update release
> >>>>> to update the current 1.0.x ?
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.)
> >>>>
> >>>> [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
> >>>> --
> >>>> Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
> >>>> GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> So How long would it take in test ?
> >>>
> >>> Wong Kwok Hon
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'll second Greg's suggestion. I unpacked the tarball from
> >> mozilla.org/firefox into /usr/local and used DESKTOP -> PREFERENCES -> MORE
> >> PREFERENCES -> PREFERRED APPLICATIONS to change the default browser from
> >> "firefox" to "/usr/local/firefox/firefox %s". That's all it took.
> >>
> >
> > I'll third it except I install to my home directory and add the manually
> > installed firefox directory to the front of my $PATH in ~/.bashrc. Adding to
> > the path allows me to easily run the newer firefox from the commandline.
>
> It was part of a yum update for me on FC4.
>
> Nancy

U have added in your yum.conf ?

Wong Kwok Hon




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