Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-05 Thread psmith
On 02/04/10 18:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/02/2010 11:05 PM, Michael Miles wrote then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? Maybe they are

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/06/2010 02:59 AM, psmith wrote: i think his reply was meant for me rahul, notice that the first paragraph of him mail is my reply to the two complainants verbatim, and mea culpa for the language/post, it was a result of a long day dealing with extremely ungratefull people and i let

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? This type of language is completely unnecessary. The maintainers

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? This type of

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 11:05 PM, Michael Miles wrote then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? Maybe they are asking because they do not know how. This kind of

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 10:35 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 11:19 PM, Craig White wrote: Rahul is a Fedora director, one of the kindest, gentlest and most patient people on this list. Thanks for the compliment but I am not really any kind of director. Just a Fedora contributor among many others. No special titles. Rahul -- users

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? This type of

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? This type of

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-01 Thread psmith
On 31/03/10 17:12, Michael Thompson wrote: On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has version 3.6.2 out. Temlakos And OpenOffice is lagging behind

How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Bullington
To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. The information from Mozilla states I need to have sufficient access authority to be able to Check for Updates. How can I do

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Thompson
On 31/03/10 15:23, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. The information from Mozilla states I need to have sufficient access authority

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Michal
On 31/03/2010 15:26, Michael Thompson wrote: On 31/03/10 15:23, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. The information from

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Bullington
I was thinking about doing that when I wrote. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Michael Thompson maverickapo...@googlemail.com wrote: On 31/03/10 15:23, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Adalbert Prokop
Am 31.03.2010 16:23, schrieb Michael Bullington: Hi! I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. That's the case because using the firefox's internal update mechanizm would make the

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:23 -0500, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. The information

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Temlakos
On 03/31/2010 11:10 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:23 -0500, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:35 AM, Temlakos wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:10 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:23 -0500, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Thompson
On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has version 3.6.2 out. Temlakos And OpenOffice is lagging behind too. -- Michael

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Michael Thompson wrote: On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has version 3.6.2 out. Temlakos And OpenOffice is lagging behind too.

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010 09:49 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Michael Thompson wrote: On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of Fedora in its updates. We are at

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread suvayu ali
On 31 March 2010 10:24, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010 09:49 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Michael Thompson wrote: On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: This much is a fact: Firefox is at

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, suvayu ali wrote: On 31 March 2010 10:24, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Suvayu Ali wrote: [...] What does this application do, and why should I be concerned that it cannot detect the latest jre available as being installed?

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-03-31 Thread john wendel
On 03/31/2010 07:26 AM, Michael Thompson wrote: On 31/03/10 15:23, Michael Bullington wrote: To whom it shall concern, I am very angry that I am unable to update Firefox manually using Firefox because the Check for Updates menu option from Firefox is dimmed out. The information from Mozilla