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David Kramer wrote: > I'm frustrated by the fact that it takes forever for RPMs to show up > after releases of FireFox and Thunderbird... Presumably that happens only about once a year when actual feature releases occur - right? Otherwise you'd be downloading security updates, which your distribution probably issues with less delay. > ...because I like to upgrade as soon as my "must-have" plugins are > supported. You don't necessarily need to wait. The "Nightly Tester Tools"[1] extension can be used to override the version requirements of other extension, most of which will work on newer versions of the browser. 1. http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly > 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? If I was in a rush, I guess the first thing I'd do is try rebuilding the package for my distro using the newer source and the distro patches from the last release, rather than switching to an unpackaged source install. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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