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