firefox version confusion

Pan Mail breeze50 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 15:55:31 UTC 2007


are you use a x86_64 cpu?
yum list will display 2 packages of firefox, one is the x86_64 version and
the another is i386 version.

On 7/23/07, don vogt <donvogt2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It looks to me like I missed a sign on a turn
> somewhere.
> No complaint. Just asking for clarification.
> I read on Redhat the following.
> -----------------------------------------------
> Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released
>
> A new version of the Mozilla products (Firefox,
> Seamonkey, Thunderbird) were released this week.
>
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.5
>
> It's rather important you ensure you've installed this
> update as the browser is certainly the most abused
> application these days. If you run Fedora, this update
> has been available via yum for several days.
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> I have been downloading firefox 2.0 and installing
> manually to keep up with the latest security fixes.
>
> When I do a "yum list firefox  I get firefox 1.5.
> I also did a "yum install firefox" and several yum
> updates of firefox.
> I appear to have two versions (copies?) of firefox.
> Am I wasting my time? Is the fedora build of firefox
> 1.5 the same as firefox 2.0? (as far as security
> updates)?
>
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