[This email has 3 images attached, but all of them are 170K total] Very strange.
I have here two instances of firefox, both reports themselves as 3.6.11 (slightly edited to remove corporate's machine name) Machine A: /home/udif> rpm -q -i firefox Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.6.11 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 2.el4 Build Date: Mon 04 Oct 2010 10:41:45 PM IST Install Date: Sat 18 Dec 2010 02:32:43 AM IST Build Host: x86-006.build.bos.redhat.com Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: firefox-3.6.11-2.el4.src.rpm Size : 128336553 License: MPL/LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 13 Oct 2010 01:08:02 PM IST, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. /home/udif> cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8) /home/udif> uname -a Linux XXXXX 2.6.9-89.0.11.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Aug 31 11:00:34 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux In this machine, I have full control over firefox updates: https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423982888761410 On machine B: udif-lnx:139> rpm -q -i firefox Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.6.11 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 2.el5 Build Date: Mon 04 Oct 2010 11:54:48 PM IST Install Date: Tue 25 Jan 2011 01:00:46 AM IST Build Host: x86-002.build.bos.redhat.com Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: firefox-3.6.11-2.el5.src.rpm Size : 18010943 License: MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 13 Oct 2010 01:12:42 PM IST, Key ID 5326810137017186 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. udif-lnx:140> cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.5 (Tikanga) udif-lnx:141> uname -a Linux udif-lnx 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:43 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux In this machine, Firefox updates are not user controllable: https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423985780093682 Looking at about:config in both browsers, I get identical values (copied from one of them, but hand-checked to make sure both are identical): https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423984013145938 Udi On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Stan Goodman <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2011 at 08:07:11 (GMT+2) Udi Finkelstein > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Firefox does not upgrade without your permission. > > That is true for add-ons. It is not true for Firefox upgrades. > > > Check under "Tools/Options/Advanced/Update", and set "Ask me what I > > want to do" instead of "Automatically download and install the > > update". > > In Linux versions of Firefox, there is no "Tools/Options"; it is a > Windows convention. The equivalent for Linux is: > Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Update. What is displayed in the Update pane > is: > > "Automatically check for updates to > Addons > Search engines" > > which isn't quite the same thing. There is certainly nothing about > upgrades to the browser being voluntary. > > But it's nice to know about Windows browsers too. > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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