Latest firefox is available pre-packaged for SL at Remi's repo, http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ we used it for a while when TUV was still supplying a desperately old version, though more recently switched back to the supplied ESR release. Graham On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:19:23PM -0500, Ken Teh wrote: > I'd appreciate some more details on how you implement the Mozilla update > protocol in an (not quite) enterprise environment. IOW, not hundreds or > thousands of machines but enough to make manual updates unfeasable. > > Isn't mozilla's update user-based? When a user launches firefox, the browser > checks for updates, and if there is a newer version, asks the user to download > and install it. What do you do if the user has no privileges to install > software? > > Thanks! > > > On 06/05/2013 08:40 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > >On 06/05/2013 01:57 PM, Ken Teh wrote: > >>I'd like to hear some pros and cons with using the latest firefox from > >>mozilla instead of using the ESR version that comes with the stock > >>distro. I am deploying a web app that fails to render properly. It is a > >>bug in firefox which has been fixed since version 18. > >> > >>Naturally, the ESR version is 17. Sigh... > > > >As we were deploying new Nvidia-equipped stereoscopic 3D scientific > >visualisation workstations using X86-64 SL6x, we had to make a decision as > >to whether to use the SL distribution Firefox (ESR) or the latest production > >release. After considering the pros and cons (including that the machines > >are behind a network firewall), we selected the current production version. > >Thus far, we have had no issues, and have done several updates using the > >Mozilla Firefox update technique, not the SL6x update, keeping Firefox up to > >the current production release. Part of the reason for the decision was the > >observation you also have made; certain defects that were corrected in the > >production release did not have the corrections backported to the earlier > >release ESR SL version. > > > >Yasha Karant -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham Allan School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------------------------------