On 09/04/2011 06:52 PM, Bryan J Smith wrote: > Red Hat backports many fixes, instead of rebasing to latest. It's actually > an_added_ burden they incur, to mitigate changes in the profiles.
Red Hat does a pretty good job at this, except Firefox, which they ignore. > > I.e., there are many enterprises who maintain a full GNOME-Firefox profile > set, and a rebase of Firefox can cause issues. Even when Red Hat rebases in > an Update Beta, there are still some organizations that complain when the > Update release comes out, and breaks a few profiles. Enterprise does have to be careful what they break. It is not perfect, such as the "cut a data DVD, trash your hard drive" issue in Enterprise 5 that Red Hat fixed for me. I almost lost my business, twice. So sometimes the out-of-date stuff can have a dark side that is unintended. > > Many times some Firefox bugs are only found in newer versions. And other > times, sometimes the fixes break compatibility, when the issue isn't as much > of a detail as people make it (especially Win32-only stuff that doesn't > affect Linux). > Yes, but my experience with Firefox, I have pushed Firefox since day one over two counties, is that it just gets better and better. So, do you use the old version with all its know exploits or do you take a chance on a new version that may introduce something new? I have *never* had a problem with the new versions. If I do, since I am using the binaries, all the code is restricted to a single directory that can easily be removed with "rm -rf". Then I will just down load an older version. They are all up on releases.mozilla.org. -T _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
