Firefox sercurity questions

[D. Hageman]

I think these questions are the reason why the firefox distributed by 
Fedora/RedHat have the update feature disabled.


On Sun, 29 May 2005, David Nicol wrote:

> On 5/29/05, rcedelman at comcast.net <rcedelman at comcast.net> wrote:
>> SuSE's Online Update has the 1.04 update. It's still better to wait for SuSE to release the update and grab it that way, than using the built-in Firefox updater. If there's any differences in the way SuSE builds firefox, you'll get the 'correct' version through the YaST Online Update. Likewise, if you use the Firefox method, you do risk breaking something.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>>
>> Rich
>
> Interesting.  Yes, it is possible that the binary linux distributions
> from firefox do not
> use the same library version.  A good self-updating feature would know about
> library versions.  Does firefox?  it doesn't seem to have library
> versions listed
> in its downloadable binary versions.
>
> In case something were to break from accepting the firefox binary, you
> could still
> back it out and reinstal from YaST as I understand things.  I don't
> know for sure though.
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