Dave wrote:
On 10/27/05, Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK the extension updates only work some of the time anyway. Are you sure that there are extensions in Firefox that should be getting updated but that are not?
Can you provide examples of what those might be?
On my work PC (windows)I got a notice that Noscript had an update, its updated to 1.1.3.3 at home in CentOS it still 1.1.3.2. Also at work translate is version 0.6.0.7 and at home its 0.6.0.6
Should I get the "checking for updates" dialog box when I manually request an update check? If so I dont get that either.
Fedora Core 4 has the same issue. Extension updates are disabled in firefox. This is a major security issue IMHO. If a security issue is found in an extension and the developer updates the extension, The user will have no idea that the extension needs to be updated. I stopped using the RPMs of firefox that FC4 provides because of this reason and just download the tar of firefox from the main firefox website so that extension updates work.