Ive tried YUM and RPM and rpmseek, but all indicate 1.5 is
latest available Firefox (rpm)for FC5. I have all the latest
dependencies for FF3, but all are older than minimum required
for downloading FF3 directly from FF website.

Do I have to go to FC9 in order to get FF3?

Bummed

Delnortey

You could probably run the binary from the Firefox site, but really, you would probably be better off just updating your system. Fedora Core 5 is pretty old...

You could upgrade the versions of the Firefox dependencies and then upgrade Firefox. You would have to upgrade the dependencies by compiling the latest versions. You also might end up in a cascade of dependencies of dependencies, etc.

I have done this sort of thing in the past and came to the conclusion after I had done it that it would have been easier to upgrade the whole distribution.

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Steve Stites

I see that FC5 is more than two years old now. Unless you're running a server or something that might suffer from the transition, I'd say it's high-time to upgrade. The pace of Linux development is so fast that two years brings a lot of changes.

And jumping from Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 is an even bigger jump. I wouldn't even try to "upgrade" it, even if you have a system that can do it. What you really need to do is back up all of your bookmarks and any customizations you have, then wipe the installation and all of your profiles completely and start again with a fresh install. Trust me, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches that way.

As the others point out, FC5 is old. However, the reason that FF 1.5 is the last release available in the repositories is that FC5 is no longer supported, so no FC5 software has been updated, nor any security patches applied, for several years.