Lanny Marcus wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > firefox won't release 3.5 via auto upgrade you'll have to do that leap yourself.