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

[Demond James]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:45:48 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
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>>It's nice that Firefox has a built-in check-for-updates feature. But, I
>>think it should be disabled by default (or even patched out) on Fedora Core.
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>newest firefox build in development should have this disabled.
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> rpm -q --changelog firefox |head
>* Sat Oct 16 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 0:0.10.1-1.0PR1.12
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>- Disable the default application checks. (#133713)
>- Disable the software update feature. (#136017)
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>* Wed Oct 13 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com>
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>- Use pango for rendering
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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?