Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:56 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> John Thompson wrote:
> > Kevin Martin wrote:
> >
> > | John Thompson wrote:
> > |
> > |> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> > |> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.src.rpm
> >
> > | Why use the rpm's at all?  Why not just get it from Mozilla?  If you
> > | want the latest you need to do that anyway.
> >
> > AFAIK, Mozilla doesn't offer 64-bit builds of FF-3.x
> >
> The 32bit builds won't run on 64bit machines?  I'm not sure what you 
> gain by running a 64bit build of FireFox (not that there's not something 
> there, I just don't understand what it might be).

Which begs the question as to why the 64-bit one is what gets installed
by default on 64-bit Fedora systems. Note that this disables some
add-ons such as Weave.

poc