[CentOS] Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Fri Feb 15 23:57:37 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest
>> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them
>> using yum ?
>
> to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2
> binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep
> updated on a limited number of machines.
but their build of firefox is linked against a different libstdc++ so
some browser plugins (ie icedtea and xine-plugin) will not work with
their build, unless you rebuild them against the older libstdc++
That's really too bad - because in my experience, the mozilla builds are
more stable than the rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's that I'm using. Well -
2.0.0.12 hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only been running it a few
days (2.0.0.10 rpm install would often crash when opening a dialog box)
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