firefox update to 1.5.0.2 possible?

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 18:57 +0100, Cam wrote:
> Jeff
> 
> Let's recap. It sounds like Mozilla's updates are binary patches which 
> won't work on Fedora's builds. It sounds like it's not a worthwhile task 
> for Fedora to replicate Mozilla's efforts to provide updates...
> 
> > We are NOT talking about user's extentions. Let me re-iterate, the
> > user-installed extentions updates should still work in fedora's
> > firefox build. Stop dragging the non-issue of user installed
> > extentions into this thread. You are only confusing yourself and other
> > potential readers.
> 
> When I update from Mozilla, it checks compatability of installed third 
> party extensions. That's part of the value of the Mozilla update that 
> you miss out on if you use rpm updates. In a worst case scenario I might 
> use an rpm update and find that my 3rd party extensions have stopped 
> working.
> 
> I'll ask again, is there a way to provide a smooth transition from the 
> default Fedora Firefox to a Mozilla self updating one? The reason I'm 
> asking is because I imagine a significant number of users might want to 
> do that.
> 
You have already been told how to do that.
1.  yum erase firefox
2.  install the mozilla version
3.  update away from mozilla.