The update feature in FF appears to be disabled, which is fine since I upgrade from the repositories. But it looks like the extension updates are disabled as well. Even if I go to the extensions menu, right click on update they don't seem to update.
Is there a setting to enable extension updates? I set extension.update.autoupdate to true in about:config and that didn't seem to help.
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?
Thanks, Greg
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.
That is weird behavior. I'd suggest using the forums over at http://www.mozillazine.org as they may know better about the updater service on Linux and whether it should work in theory.
If you figure out that it should work in theory, then we could try to figure out why it isn't working in CentOS (and/or on your box).
Greg
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.
I tried it as another user thinking maybe something was brought over from my old configs, does the same thing. I prefer using RPMs and not tar installs. I noticed the DAG repo still had pre 1 version. Anyone know if a repo that has non disabled FF?
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