My university network security unit requires that the latest production
releases of particular network applications be installed in order to
minimize security compromises on systems attached to the university LAN.
These applications include typical web browsers and IMAP email
clients, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Chrome, and MS Internet
Explorer (the latter I personally only run within MS Win, currently MS
Win 7, under VirtualBox under Linux).
Opera and Chrome install from the respective source vendors. However,
both Firefox and Thunderbird are provided by TUV and thus SL, but at
release versions considerably lower than the current release from
Mozilla. I have found a work around that allows the use of the tar.bz2
installation from Mozilla on X86-64 SL6x, but one of our technicians
mentioned the use of a repository (Remi) that evidently ports the
current Mozilla production products to EL, including X86-64 EL6. The
relevant URLs appear below.
Is anyone using this repository and these RPMs, and if so, what is the
experience of such use (e.g., are these faithful ports of the Mozilla
production applications that perform the same as current production from
Mozilla)?
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel
http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/remi-repository
Yasha Karant
