[CentOS] firefox: annoyance

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 18:19:43 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> >
> So, because you have to check a box to get the menu, you want to look
> for a new browser, which could just stop working at the whims of the
> upstream guys (like chromium did) when they move on to the latest and
> greatest glibc, etc?  This sounds silly to me ..

Dunno if it is really any sillier to stop supporting ancient libs than
it is to keep them completely frozen for umpteen years with no
improvements and force the choice.  Too bad there can't be a nice
sensible progression of backwards compatible updates.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com



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