[CentOS-devel] FireFox 1.5 for CentOS4 i386 and x86_64 now in Testing

Thu Dec 15 14:45:35 UTC 2005
Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov>

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 10:29 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:44 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > 
> >>Firefox 1.5 is now avaialble for CentOS4 on i386 and x86_64 in the 
> >>Testing repository.
> >>
> >>on i386:
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Name        : firefox                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
> >>Version     : 1.5                               Vendor: CentOS
> >>Release     : 1.c4.centos4                  Build Date: Sat 03 Dec 2005 
> >>03:04:48 AM UTC
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Just reporting success on installing and using the i386 version on both
> > i686 and Opteron x86_64 systems [I don't use the x86_64 build due to 32-
> > bit plugin issues].  As has been reported elsewhere, 1.5 seems
> > dramatically faster than earlier firefox versions.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback Phil. Did you 'update' an existing firefox-1.0.7 
> install or was this a fresh install ?

Updated an existing firefox.  Everything I've tried still works without
other changes or tweaks including j2re, acroread, and various multimedia
plugins.