On 4/14/06, JoshAre you saying that fedora packaging is disabling major features of a major web browser? I do not see how compile time options can disable an update feature.wrote:
> I thought inspite of RPM installation, firefox should still be able to fetch
> updates. I believe the updates are only binary diffs and i do not see how
> difficult would it be to update from firefox itself.
>
> I wouldn't have to wait for a couple of days or weeks for fedora to
> release an security update when automatic update feature is already
> available in firefox.
I think you grossly under-estimate the effect of the differences in
compile time options between the fedora builds and the mozilla builds
and you need to adjust your expecations accordingly.