[rhelv6-list] firefox 4?

[Gary Gatling]

Cool. Thanks for the reply. I don't think we'll roll our own firefox 4. 
instead we'll just tell people RH will update when the security patches 
stop for firefox 3.6. 3.6 is a good browser. I'm just an early adopter 
myself.

Cheers,

Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Leinweber, James wrote:

>> Hey, just curious. Does Red Hat have any plans to make firefox 4 the
>> default browser in RHEL 5 or RHEL 6? ...
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> Based on previous behavior, I speculate that Redhat will continue to
> ship 3.6 series Firefox until Mozilla stops supporting it, then
> migrate to whatever's current.  If you want 4 in 2011, plan on
> doing it yourself.  (Presumably you'd make the upstream tarball
> into an RPM and distribute it from a local repository.)
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> E.g. 6.1 beta has firefox 3.6.15
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> -- Jim Leinweber
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