I don't know Remi's repo and I'm wary of including a lot of repos. The only extra repos I use are elrepo, epel, and adobe. I even have doubts about epel. Comments? Assurances? On 06/06/2013 02:31 PM, Graham Allan wrote: > 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 >