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From: Patrick Phillips on 18 Feb 2010 13:07
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:48:06 -0700
John Bowling <johnlb2002(a)cox.net> wrote:

> There is something else openSUSE does with updates. With Firefox, they
> (apparently) advance the version numbers differently than Mozilla
> does. Mozilla Firefox download is now at 3.6 and Firefox on openSUSE
> is 3.5.6. And 3.6 has been out there for several months now.
>
> This causes problems with some plugins. If you install the version
> from Mozilla using their recommended method, it will NOT change the
> version number that is displayed, hence when you go to download
> plugins, it looks for 3.5 version plugins that don't work with 3.6.
>
> This arises the question: What version are you really running?
> Is it 3.5 plain, or enhanced to be more like 3.6?
> 3.6 is supposed to start up and display pages a lot faster, yet my
> 3.5.6 takes some time to start up.

Firefox 3.6 has been in the repositories for a week or so, its listed
if you look...not sure what its name was [I'm not in OS now]
other than probably listed as "firefox 3.6", it transferred all my
bookmarks and settings and compatible plugins, and removes old
3.5x version, uses same Firefox icon if I remember right.

Try it..Firefox 3.6 seems faster or as fast as Chrome now!

If you don't see it listed look for it at openSuse one-click install
web site at http://software.opensuse.org/search
select your OS version before search.

--
Patrick in IL.

From: WLS on 18 Feb 2010 13:08
On 02/18/2010 12:48 PM, John Bowling wrote:

>
> There is something else openSUSE does with updates. With Firefox, they
> (apparently) advance the version numbers differently than Mozilla does.
> Mozilla Firefox download is now at 3.6 and Firefox on openSUSE is 3.5.6.
> And 3.6 has been out there for several months now.

My Firefox is the openSUSE branded 3.5.7 and has been for awhile. Do you
have the Mozilla repository installed?
>
> This causes problems with some plugins. If you install the version from
> Mozilla using their recommended method, it will NOT change the version
> number that is displayed, hence when you go to download plugins, it looks
> for 3.5 version plugins that don't work with 3.6.
>

> This arises the question: What version are you really running?
> Is it 3.5 plain, or enhanced to be more like 3.6?
> 3.6 is supposed to start up and display pages a lot faster, yet my 3.5.6
> takes some time to start up.

I installed the 3.6 tar.bz2 from Mozilla and it is faster, but must
have created a new profile because none of the plugins I have seem to work.

Which reminds me along with waiting for the update to Seamonkey, I am
also waiting for the openSUSE branded Firefox 3.6. (sigh)

Just checked the Mozilla repository and just found this:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/x86_64/MozillaFirefox-3.6.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm

Interesting fact is it is dated 22-Jan-2010

So, we get a bit torrent client upgrade before it's released and are
still waiting for an upgrade of a web browser released long ago.

I think I'll go back to trying to figure out women. :)


From: Patrick Phillips on 18 Feb 2010 18:30
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:59:57 +0100, houghi wrote:

> What is faster? Just tried it and I see no difference with 3.5.7. The
> loading is just as fast. The webpages (with and without female nipples)
> just download as fast. The movies are shown just as they always do (but
> that would be MPlayers reponsability)

3.6 just seems faster to me, and think it was Cnet ran tests [probably
windows version only] finding 3.6 was quite a bit faster.

--
Patrick in IL.
From: DenverD on 19 Feb 2010 02:41
WLS wrote:
> And that means what exactly? This is a beta version? If it's the most
> recent release why does the main site still say 1.83 is the current version?

i just looked at http://www.transmissionbt.com/ and see, on the front
page "Transmission 1.90 - Download Now"..

i also see a link to http://www.transmissionbt.com/donate.php and
suggest you use it, if you use the software..

feel better now?

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KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default
#1 SMP i686 athlon
From: WLS on 19 Feb 2010 08:04
On 02/19/2010 02:41 AM, DenverD wrote:
> WLS wrote:
>> And that means what exactly? This is a beta version? If it's the most
>> recent release why does the main site still say 1.83 is the current version?
>
> i just looked at http://www.transmissionbt.com/ and see, on the front
> page "Transmission 1.90 - Download Now"..

I also saw that, the day after the app updated through Yast, and the web
site was still indicating that v1.83 was the current stable version.

That was what caused my confusion. I'm not used to updates before
official releases.

>
> i also see a link to http://www.transmissionbt.com/donate.php and
> suggest you use it, if you use the software..

I'll keep that in mind if and when Transmission is ready for prime time.
I think it may be dropped in favor of qBittorrent if some future
release. However I've gone back to using uTorrent in Wine.
>
> feel better now?

Much better.

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