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I do agree with you. Applications that updates by themselves are indeed evil thing. Imagine elderly people for instance, my friends grandmother almost got heart attack when her Firefox 3.6.18 became Firefox 4! Poor woman, just sits there doing regular uploading of photos, and then bam! Pop up comes up, she just press ok, and then suddenly ff becomes a mess, she can't use it at all, everything is different. She came downstairs screaming. And that is just one person, one story. I am a computer technician, and i have some regular base of clients, for which i had customized operating systems, and the practice is, i get tons of phone calls from desperate people, who had their software updated aether automatically or by accidentally pressing ok. So when I am reinstalling windows, I now disable all the auto updating "features" I can find. And only update software on next reinstall, because then, I am there in person to show people what is new and how to get along with new features and so on. I tell you, programs updating themselves is a real nightmare. That is the main reason I like Slackware a lot. Everything here happens only when I need/want to happen. And it is really sad to see how some programs are still want to update themselves even on Linux systems. This has to stop. Really, I have not even started on how much system resources those updates-per-every-application waste! |
What did I miss with FF 5.0.1?
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On July 11 Mozilla released FF 5.0.1 to bring increased compatibility with Mac OS X Lion. They said: Quote:
Yet I can't find any credible information on the Internet what's all about. "Security Advisories for Firefox" and "Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories" pages offering no clue. Does anyone know for sure what's a new Mozilla milestone we are just passing by? :doh: Thanks in advance. |
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I was wondering that Mozilla didn't say why Linux and Windows users need FF 5.0.1 You just proved that I am right, didn't you? |
I am not sure what you are asking, cfdisk. But it seems that this update was intended for Mac OS users only. My local Linux firefox would not self-update to 5.0.1, for example, and the release notes are mysteriously burried. I also use icecat, and I noticed that Giuseppe is ignoring 5.0.1 as well. :D Anyhow, it seems that Slackware (along with other non-OS-X) users can safely skip this update.
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Thanks, qweasd.
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http://www.slackware.com/security/li...ecurity&y=2011 Guess what? While running upgrade I noticed that firefox 5.0.1 appeared on the list. Naturally, not having any previous news about FF 5.0.1 for Linux and even Windows I got curious about that particular FF release but I am still unable to pull any info. Keep in mind neither http://www.slackware.com/security/li...ecurity&y=2011 nor http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom got any words about FF 5.0.1 for Linux, not to mention Mozilla pages which you already found. Do you follow me, don't you? |
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"I guess this is only a fix for Mac OS X, but it's still 0.0.1 better. ;-)" So this update has no effect on Linux, except version bump. |
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Since you are talking of Windows, you might be thinking of Chrome as that is how it misbehaves and why I won't install it under Windows. But that is a different subject. |
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