On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
Hi All,
Under SL6, are we stuck with Firefox 3.6? Is there some plan
to support Firefox 4 in our future? (I have just been using the
binary under CentOS 5.6.)
Red Hat switched from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 3.0 with RHEL 5.2
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.2_Technical_Notes/ar01s03.html
I would expect them to switch from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4.0
at a point release of 6 (and maybe 5) when the effort
of backporting security fixes becomes too much.
However, I would encourage anyone who can to try alternate versions
in the mean time. My feeling is that Red Hat Firefox is too far
behind the curve for bugs to get fixed.
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[email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
