On 7/31/06, Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:
>
>
> Did anyone else observe firefox starting with a splash screen and a
> (rather slow) progress bar about "checking for compatibility updates for
> your extensions"? Of course there are no extensions installed, and XPI
> installs as well as automatic checks for updates are disabled and
> locked...
>

This is new feature of Firefox-1.5 code base. Anytime the code sees
that it is 'new' it runs a compatibility check to make sure your
plugins will work with the ABI.

> Troy, anyway, I've been feeling increasingly uneasy about the security
> situation regarding firefox for weeks now. Are you going to provide an
> "official SL" backport of 1.5 to SL3, and if, is there an ETA? I wouldn't
> care if there were rough edges left. If you say you can't do this anytime
> soon, I'd probably roll out my own build (and: yes, I'd be willing to
> share it with the other SL folks, and: no, I couldn't provide any support
> for it), or maybe the CERN packages [Jarek, is there any reason why I
> would not want to do this?], or even the binary from mozilla.org.
>
Upstream has released. While it is not listed as a requirement via
RPM.. you will need to update to the latest freetype also for PANGO to
work correctly on your system. [Fonts go crazy and firefox will crash
otherwise.]

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator