Update Firefox 2.0.0.14 To v2.0.0.15
 

I apologize if this question has been asked before but please bare with me...According to this http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox...ements-v2.html it says that it needs:

* glibc 2.3.2
* gtk+2.0
* XFree86-3.3.6
* fontconfig (also known as xft)
* libstdc++5

But it also says that linux distributors may require different packages. I want to upgrade to v2.0.0.15 because it has security fixes http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secu...irefox2.0.0.15

I have ffv2.0.0.14(came with slackware) and I have no plans to upgrade to ff3.0 because afaik it's still a release candidate...

So what's required to install and update to firefox 2.0.0.15?...

Is it recommended to update?

The way I did it was:
download download firefox-2.0.0.15.tar.gz
extract the package.
rename the extracted folder to firefox-2.0.0.15
copy & past into /usr/lib as root
edit the KDE menu for firefox with the start command
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.15/firefox

Then I just trashed the old FF with pkgtool.
So far everything seems to be working

Pat usually is prompt with releasing security updates. However, according to the Mozilla web site, version 2.0.0.15 was released officially July 1, only two days ago. As this release is primarily a security release, I suspect Pat will soon upload a copy to patches.

There's a SlackBuild script in source/xap/mozilla-firefox. If you edit one or two lines in the SlackBuild (the version and possibly the tar command), then you can use it to install Firefox 2.0.0.15.

Hello i just update firefox with:Edit k menu>shortcut firefox>check run as.
Then i run firefox from this shortcut and i just select help>check for updates.I want to ask if this way has something wrong(about security)?

Offtopic
Also how i can run a program from console as root like the option run as from k menu without take the message error open display etc.

The X11 fixes took over 2 weeks to come out, but I hope he'll be a little faster with something as crucial as a browser vulnerability.

With the command kdesu nameprogram, like kdesu konqueror.

I was running Firefox-3.0 from Slackware-current. Some things about it really irritated me,
so I built Firefox-2.0.0.15 from the Mozilla source using the mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild
from Slackware-12.1 used for 2.0.0.14. It was necessary to edit mozilla-firefox-simple.diff.gz
and mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild.

I installed with "upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.15-i686-1.tgz". I had a major problem,
though. With Firefox-2.0.0.15, when I first went to a LinuxQuestions.org web page, I had to
login again. This did not happen with the previous Firefox upgrades. So I logged in, and it
looked fine. But whenever I changed to another web page at LQ, it required me to login again.

So I'm back with Firefox-3.0 ... seems 2.0.0.15 has a bug which I don't care to deal with.

If I don't get used to the changes soon, I'll "upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz".

I'm quite happy with FF 3.0 and I'm going to stick with it. I'm alternating between using FF 3.0 and Opera 9.5:-)

Just out of dumb luck mine is still working perfect without any re-login issues and all my bookmarks were detected.
I did have to reinstall flash 9 tho.
I know I didn't do it the right way but it works for now.
I used a "package tester & learning" box that I don't care if I screw up, but so far so good.

All of your posts are really interesting. So far from reading other user posts and from what I can tell, I assume that there are many ways to install and upgrade firefox. But sometimes doing this will most likely lead to errors and breakage. The only way that I can tell is if I try it out myself and see what happens but that's not going to happen because the process seems out of order and I have no plans to debug critical errors. Maybe in the near future I'll get my hands dirty and upgrade firefox manually but at this time, I don't have the right resources yet to attempt this.

The only official way that I know of is using slackware's package management tools to install/upgrade. Anyway that being said, I'll just wait for Pat's release.

I'm sticking with opera for the time being. FF 3 is full of bugs still. I have tryed downloading numerous items with that browser and it would die on me and not resume at around 2.9-3.5 gigs. Even IE7 and now 8 will do 4 gb. Not happy at all with all the testing mozilla did leading up to the grand FF3, very disappointing.

rc nai:
In the next few days you'll be able to do it the right way with "slackpkg upgrade-all" and won't have a mess to clean up.

Summer is vacation time for a lot of people. The guy needs to have a life too. :) And he likely asks his first level support folks to help him test the patches before he posts to the mirrors. Two weeks is more than quick enough for me.

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