Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

[Kevin Kofler]

Scott Beamer wrote:
> If your not otherwise using sqlite you can grab Firefox 3.6 from Rawhide.
> I'm running it now.
> 
> yum --enablerepo=rawhide update firefox
> 
> You'll get an update for firefox, xulrunner and sqlite.

DO NOT DO THIS! A lot of stuff uses sqlite or xulrunner, you'll end up with 
many things upgraded to Rawhide versions in most cases, ending up in an 
unsupportable mix of F12 and Rawhide. You have been warned!

Folks, please STOP recommending "--enablerepo=rawhide" as a solution to 
anything, it's almost always the wrong answer. The ONLY valid use of
"--enablerepo=rawhide" is "yum --enablerepo=rawhide update" (i.e. upgrade to 
Rawhide entirely, with all the resulting breakage, i.e. NOT something I'd 
recommend to the average user). Selective upgrades are NOT SUPPORTED and 
will in almost all cases NOT work as expected due to chains of dependencies 
and reverse dependencies dragging in a lot of stuff.

A less dangerous solution is to use Remi Collet's repository at 
http://blog.famillecollet.com/ . Remi actually builds the current Firefox 
for F12, so you don't end up with a dependency mess.

But a word of warning about Firefox 3.6: don't upgrade to 3.6 (no matter 
how) if you use the OpenJDK plugin, as it has not been ported yet.

        Kevin Kofler