<div dir="ltr">[This email has 3 images attached, but all of them are 170K total]<br><br>Very strange.<br><br>I have here two instances of firefox, both reports themselves as 3.6.11<br>(slightly edited to remove corporate's machine name)<br>
<br>Machine A:<br>/home/udif> rpm -q -i firefox<br>Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable)<br>Version : 3.6.11 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.<br>Release : 2.el4 Build Date: Mon 04 Oct 2010 10:41:45 PM IST<br>
Install Date: Sat 18 Dec 2010 02:32:43 AM IST Build Host: <a href="http://x86-006.build.bos.redhat.com">x86-006.build.bos.redhat.com</a><br>Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: firefox-3.6.11-2.el4.src.rpm<br>
Size : 128336553 License: MPL/LGPL<br>Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 13 Oct 2010 01:08:02 PM IST, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e<br>Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <<a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla">http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla</a>><br>
URL : <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/</a><br>Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser.<br>Description :<br>Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards<br>
compliance, performance and portability.<br>/home/udif> cat /etc/redhat-release<br>Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)<br>/home/udif> uname -a<br>Linux XXXXX 2.6.9-89.0.11.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Aug 31 11:00:34 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
<br>In this machine, I have full control over firefox updates:<br><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423982888761410">https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423982888761410</a><br>
<br>On machine B:<br>udif-lnx:139> rpm -q -i firefox<br>Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable)<br>Version : 3.6.11 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.<br>Release : 2.el5 Build Date: Mon 04 Oct 2010 11:54:48 PM IST<br>
Install Date: Tue 25 Jan 2011 01:00:46 AM IST Build Host: <a href="http://x86-002.build.bos.redhat.com">x86-002.build.bos.redhat.com</a><br>Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: firefox-3.6.11-2.el5.src.rpm<br>
Size : 18010943 License: MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+<br>Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 13 Oct 2010 01:12:42 PM IST, Key ID 5326810137017186<br>Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <<a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla">http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla</a>><br>
URL : <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/</a><br>Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser.<br>Description :<br>Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards<br>
compliance, performance and portability.<br>udif-lnx:140> cat /etc/redhat-release<br>Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.5 (Tikanga)<br>udif-lnx:141> uname -a<br>Linux udif-lnx 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:43 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux<br>
<br>In this machine, Firefox updates are not user controllable:<br><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423985780093682">https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423985780093682</a><br>
<br><br>Looking at about:config in both browsers, I get identical values (copied from one of them, but hand-checked to make sure both are identical):<br><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423984013145938">https://picasaweb.google.com/udi.finkelstein/Firefox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPU28jFo8SwrQE#5589423984013145938</a><br>
<br><br>Udi<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Stan Goodman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stan.goodman@hashkedim.com">stan.goodman@hashkedim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 29 March 2011 at 08:07:11 (GMT+2) Udi Finkelstein<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:udi.finkelstein@gmail.com">udi.finkelstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> Firefox does not upgrade without your permission.<br>
<br>
</div>That is true for add-ons. It is not true for Firefox upgrades.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Check under "Tools/Options/Advanced/Update", and set "Ask me what I<br>
> want to do" instead of "Automatically download and install the<br>
> update".<br>
<br>
</div>In Linux versions of Firefox, there is no "Tools/Options"; it is a<br>
Windows convention. The equivalent for Linux is:<br>
Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Update. What is displayed in the Update pane<br>
is:<br>
<br>
"Automatically check for updates to<br>
Addons<br>
Search engines"<br>
<br>
which isn't quite the same thing. There is certainly nothing about<br>
upgrades to the browser being voluntary.<br>
<br>
But it's nice to know about Windows browsers too.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
</font><div class="im">Stan Goodman<br>
Qiryat Tiv'on<br>
Israel<br>
<br>
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