Firefox/Thunderbird: Tar file or RPM?

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)]

I personally just stick with what Ubuntu provides.  Their releases come 
out every 6 months and seem to match pretty well with major software 
releases.

The lastest Ubuntu release came out yesterday and includes Firefox 2.0.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, David Kramer wrote:

> I'm frustrated by the fact that it takes forever for RPMs to show up
> after releases of FireFox and Thunderbird, because I like to upgrade as
> soon as my "must-have" plugins are supported.  But it seems to take a
> long time for them to start showing up.
>
> Do y'all tend to use RPMs and wait, or use tar files and deal with the
> fact that there's no installer setting up icons in your menus, etc?
>
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