On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't had time to test them. What I want to do is be able to apply > security updates to an existing version that I know and like without having > to install and test later versions. I administer a network of over 80 > users, and I'm a one-man IT department that has several other > responsibilities. I need to be able to do this quickly and easily. I agree completely. I had a client site where my app broke one just one workstation. It turned out she had upgraded her FireFox (there's always the adventurous ones!) and it had uncovered a bug in my HTML coding - a missing greater-than sign - that all previous versions had just ignored. Luckily, she noticed it right away, because that could have caused a mess. > If I download it, it gives me an apply button--still without telling me > anything about the version. If I don't press that button, then the next > time Firefox runs, it "don't ask me nuttin'", it just installs the updates. Oh, I didn't get that. > The thing is not just annoying, it's broken. I agree. Thought there has to be a way to turn it off. I'm running Fedora 14, and Fedora upgrades through their own repositories, not through the Mozilla site. So, I'm still running 3.6.20 on this machine. I have to assume this version is built from source from Mozilla, possibly with Fedora-specific tweaks. Searching about:config for 'update' yields a bunch of app.update settings. The documentation on Mozilla is obscure enough: http://kb.mozillazine.org/App.update.enabled Setting those all off is still not going to change the valid UI complaint you have: you aren't being told what version it's offering, nor what the changes are. For those, you'll need to visit the Mozilla site. I'd suggest posting a bug report to the Mozilla site and see if they'll consider including it in FireFox 10, which I understand is due by the end of the year ;) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4ttevb4ms5vnjhce8o-3+2cqlxyzxnr5mmkfpoxobr...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
