On 8/10/09, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at gmail.com> wrote: > I set up a CentOS desktop computer for my brother and his kids. When > Firefox 3.5 came out he decided to download and install it like he > would Windows (he doesn't yet understand the repository system). He's > been telling me that it works fine, even though I was skeptical due to > my experience with Firefox 3.5 on CentOS 5.3. Then today, he says, > "Oh, by the way, the CentOS computer has been rebooting itself every > now and then." What?! (This is where he is in Linux -- doesn't realize > that it's not like Windows, that it's not supposed to reboot > randomly.) "Does it do it when you're in Firefox?" "Yes." > > He's okay, though, just a matter of uninstalling his home root version > of Firefox -- I've been updating his computer with yum, so he still > has the newest *repository* release of Firefox also. > > At any rate, just to let everyone know, whatever the issue is with > Firefox 3.5 and *some* CentOS 5.3 computers (an Xorg graphics card > incompatibility issue?) -- it goes beyond the RPM package released by > Michael Harris. As for myself, I'm just going to wait for the > repository Firefox 3.5 upgrade. Ron: My Desktop is dual boot. M$ WinXP Home and CentOS 5.3 (32 bit). I rarely use M$ Windows, but yesterday I needed to use it, and I was offered an Update for Mozilla Firefox. What was offered was not 3.5. It was 3.0.13 as I recall. I updated to 3.0.13. Like you, I will wait until yum update finds Firefox 3.5. And, on the Windows side, I will wait until they offer it to me. Having the "latest and greatest" is not always the best idea. My 2 Pesos.... Lanny