Maybe I should go ahead and try to see if I can tease the bank a little :)
2006/5/2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear Johan, > One area where you should consider this is for browsers and especially > for Mozilla Firefox as it's one of the most used in the linux/suse world > :) unfortunately it's much more complex than that. Mozilla Firefox might look like an example where updating is feasible because no other package depends on it, but it isn't. See: People can install extensions into their Mozilla Firefox profiles, and if a new version is delivered via YOU, most of them won't work correctly any more. Some of them can even invalidate the profile, produce XUL errors, destroy the user interface or even prevent the browser from starting up at all. Do you really want to see such things happen in a released product?
Yes you better put some efforts on keeping extensions in shape too ;-) Same would happen updating from 10.0 to 10.1 so a little backup old setup before we continue the upgrade would be in order maybe since you care about this topic ;-) Sure I make a copy of my user area every time and have it in a separate partition.
YES, at least my bank checked against you current versionnumber of > Mozilla Firefox and I was told to upgrade (kind of fun as I just pulled > it down via YOU seconds before on another PC) ;-) I seriously doubt that the new version is really *required* for the online banking to work correctly. The bank shouldn't check the user agent string.
I'm certain they have taken the path of ease. Thinking like this how do we get them Firefox users to change behavior or fit into our "system" and hit a few linux people in the process ;-) Of course with the idea of doing the least work possible in that process
Yes at a very slow pace I may add if we don't consider the supplemental > area of the ftp site ;-) These packages are half-official and if people really need new versions, they can just add that to their installation sources. Since this directory provides repodata, it works with YaST and is quite easy to set up for everyone.
I know and my concern isn't really on my own behalf, but more for newcomers to this wonderful world of linux be it SuSE or other distros :) I'm just looking for insight to make transition from point a to b when we talk about Firefox. People going through the transition from windows to linux would have to deal with the same issues. I suspect it's a daily trifle for you guys as thats the main plan. OK let me stop semi-ranting and get some work done ;-) Johan Andreas Hanke
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