On Sunday 29 May 2005 08:15 pm, D. Hageman wrote:
I think these questions are the reason why the firefox distributed by Fedora/RedHat have the update feature disabled.
Mandrake has it disabled too.
The good news is that distributors such as RedHat often find and fix the vulnerabilities before they distribute their packages, so that even if the aparant version number is not the same as the one patched by the developer, the package has in fact been patched.
There have been some grumblings in the Linux press that Mozilla should get it's act together when it comes to Linux releases. Their installers no longer represent acceptable practices when it comes to modern distributions.
Mozilla has a long tradition of resistance to user feedback though - it's all about new features!