On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:46:16AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
> My university network security unit requires that the latest
> production releases of particular network applications be installed ...

The situation with Firefox in SL is identical to the situation
with IE in Windows and with Safari in MacOS.

If your security officer is happy with you running the version
of IE installed by Windows self updates, and the version of Safari
installed by MacOS self updates, what is his objection to the version
of Firefox installed by SL self updates?

If your security officer does not know SL from Adam, or is worried
that the SL version of Firefox is not up-to-date on security fixes
compared to the Mozilla firefox, you can pointing him to the security
section on the web site of the pay-ware version of SL.

For example, here is the security advisory for the latest firefox update:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0144.html

Here is the mailing list with all security advisories:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2013-January/date.html

By looking at these advisories, your security officer can see for themselves
if "pay-ware SL" and "free SL" are up to date on security fixes
to the SL version of firefox in general and as compared to firefox
from Mozilla.

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