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30th August 2012, 08:16 AM
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How long for Firefox 15?
It's been over 24 hours since Firefox 15 was announced, after a public beta and RC cycle. It appears there are quite a few serious vulnerabilities in Firefox 14 that are now public knowledge. Is there any indication how long it will take the Fedora crew to release the FF15 RPMs, or should I just go and install the Firefox provided binaries?
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30th August 2012, 08:30 AM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
Packages have to be built and tested before they're released. Fedora always seems to take a bit longer than (K)Ubuntu in this regard. If you can't wait, use the official binaries or look on Koji:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/p...o?packageID=37
I got FF15 yesterday but am still waiting for TB15 so am using the Mozilla binary package for that.
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30th August 2012, 08:37 AM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
I know packages take time to test and build, but doing that with the latest RC would have made the process for the final release rather fast. Basically do a build with the latest source, run unit tests and release.
I was going to pull an srpm and the FF15 sources to build my own RPM and the FF15 binary appeared. I think this is a good example of asking a question at the same time someone was fixing it.  It's available for download now, so please disgregard the question.
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30th August 2012, 11:47 AM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
Official binaries from Firefox are built against old GCC and libs and so they always have poor performance compared to Fedora built binaries.
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30th August 2012, 01:32 PM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
I updated to firefox 15, thunderbird 15 and xulrunner 15 yesterday on F16. If you "just can't wait"....
Code:
sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update firefox thunderbird xulrunner
Last edited by PabloTwo; 30th August 2012 at 01:40 PM.
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30th August 2012, 01:54 PM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
Well, firefox and thunderbird 15 are now available in the updates repository ...
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30th August 2012, 02:28 PM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
Yeah, it went really quick this time, maybe even record fast!
Just remember that you can always test new updates and when people up-vote the update in Bodi, it might be pushed to stable faster.
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30th August 2012, 02:41 PM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
Now we wait for the mirrors to update ...
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30th August 2012, 06:07 PM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
I just updated to version 15.0 of Firefox and Thunderbird. What I really like is that Fedora also packages the Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird.
Great Job!
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30th August 2012, 06:26 PM
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
@dan
When ever my mirrors are not up to date. i just do a "yum clean all && yum update"
Somehow I get access to a new mirror which is upto date.
I wish there was an option in fedora to choose my preferred mirrorlist.
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30th August 2012, 06:29 PM
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Formerly known as"professorrmd"
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Re: How long for Firefox 15?
I hope the enhancements are not just eye-candy. I did not read the changelog though ... too lazy 
Having said that, I must add that the new tabs in thunderbird look very nice 
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