Firefox -- should "check for updates" be disabled?

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:11:42AM -0400, Demond James wrote:
> Some software updates for firefox are done similar to the extensions 
> installation (like the update to version 0.10.1). Are these updates not 
> compatible with a FC3 installation of firefox?

If they install in the users' home directories, than they're probably okay
(if they know enough to disable themselves when a system-wide update is
available). If they try to install themselves in the system directories
(like the search plugins currently do) then there's going to be a problem.


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