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Spread Firefox or Shred Firefox?
Aug 11, 2008, 14 :34 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (5775 reads)

[ Thanks to LX for this link. ]

"Yeah, sure.... you *only* have to upgrade GTK + to version 2.10 or newer... and compile pango, cairo, glib, libthai, libdatrie..etc. And yes, you'll be upgrading, on your production machines, a set of critical libraries on which a huge number of applications depend to be able to install Firefox 3. Who knows what that may break? The alternative: upgrading the whole distribution even though it's working perfectly."

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I'm sorry, but is it the Mozilla Fou ...   Complain to the right party   
cmost
Aug 11, 2008, 14:54:06
 
Why does the Mozilla Foudation think tha ...   Not a Firefox issue   
k
Aug 11, 2008, 15:02:53
 
...as some people are making it out to b ...   It isn't as big a deal...   
cjm
Aug 11, 2008, 15:05:56
 
Everybody's right here about this be ...   ...except that there's just one Windows 'd   
littlenoodles
Aug 11, 2008, 18:01:48
 
the latest RHEL 4 service pack includes  ...   wrong about RHEL4   
fesddffsd
Aug 11, 2008, 18:23:34
 
> Mozilla's a special case, because  ...   Re: ...except that there's just one Windows &#   
AS
Aug 11, 2008, 22:24:47
 
The mozilla-provided "*.tar.bz2" version ...   FOR "AS:" Heck, just download the tarball...   
rickst29
Aug 12, 2008, 05:21:18
 
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