On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 07:22 -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I believe this is not OT. > > Something odd happened today. > > Some of my machines kave firefox-8.0.1 binaries from mozilla installed > (these distros, I have just for comparison and learning purposes). > > Fedora is one of them. Just to check for the version, I clicked in > "About Firefox", and to my surprise, it stated 8.0.1 but a security > (if I remember correctly) upgrade was available in Mozilla. However, > in the site, firefox-8.0.1 was latest. After closing and running > several times, with the same result, I decided to download it, and > sizes, diff and signatures were different from new 8.0.1 to previous > 8.0.1; after replaced, i.e., removing old 8.0.1 and installing new > 8.0.1, there was no upgrade available anymore.
I may be wrong, but I remember reading that 8.0.1 was a security patch for MacOS only. For Linux, there's no difference between 8.0 and 8.0.1, so what you describe may relate to that. Simon.
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