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From: JF Mezei on 28 Nov 2009 08:38
Snow Lepoard, Firefox 3.0.10 and java don't work. Trying to access a
site tht needs java would crash Firefox.

Upgrading Firefox to 3.0.15 seems to have fixed this.
From: JF Mezei on 28 Nov 2009 09:06
Michelle Steiner wrote:

>> Upgrading Firefox to 3.0.15 seems to have fixed this.
>
> The current version of Firefox is 3.5.5


Interesting. The "check for upgrades" function told me the latest was
3.0.15 and that page said it was released oct 27th. So it looked pretty
recent.

But going to mozilla.org confirms the latest is really 3.5.5.

I guess this must be a major upgrade and the "check for upgrade" only
looks for minor upgrades.
From: Leonidas Jones on 28 Nov 2009 14:36
JF Mezei wrote:
> Michelle Steiner wrote:
>
/snip/
>
> Interesting. The "check for upgrades" function told me the latest was
> 3.0.15 and that page said it was released oct 27th. So it looked pretty
> recent.
>
> But going to mozilla.org confirms the latest is really 3.5.5.
>
> I guess this must be a major upgrade and the "check for upgrade" only
> looks for minor upgrades.

Firefox is set to do automatic upgrades to point releases, for example
3.0.1 to 3.0.2. The final security release of the 3.0 iteration was
3.0.15, in which an automatic update to 3.5 is enabled. In 3.0.15, try
Help>>Check for updates, and you should see it.

On a Mac its just as easy to download the full version from the site and
install it.

Lee
From: John Varela on 28 Nov 2009 21:28
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:36:07 UTC, Leonidas Jones
<LeonidasJones(a)netscape.net> wrote:

> JF Mezei wrote:
> > Michelle Steiner wrote:
> >
> /snip/
> >
> > Interesting. The "check for upgrades" function told me the latest was
> > 3.0.15 and that page said it was released oct 27th. So it looked pretty
> > recent.
> >
> > But going to mozilla.org confirms the latest is really 3.5.5.
> >
> > I guess this must be a major upgrade and the "check for upgrade" only
> > looks for minor upgrades.
>
> Firefox is set to do automatic upgrades to point releases, for example
> 3.0.1 to 3.0.2. The final security release of the 3.0 iteration was
> 3.0.15, in which an automatic update to 3.5 is enabled. In 3.0.15, try
> Help>>Check for updates, and you should see it.

My FF is at 3.5.2 and Check for Updates is grayed out. How come
that?

--
John Varela
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From: Leonidas Jones on 28 Nov 2009 22:11
John Varela wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:36:07 UTC, Leonidas Jones
> <LeonidasJones(a)netscape.net> wrote:
>
>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Michelle Steiner wrote:
/snip/
> My FF is at 3.5.2 and Check for Updates is grayed out. How come
> that?
>
I assume you are using a Mac, being a Mac group and all. Versions of FF
provided with most Linux distros have updating disabled, so the distro
updater can do it.

Then again, I see your headers indicate your user agent as:

ProNews/2 V1.60.cp125

ProNews would appear to be a newsreader for OS/2. I know there have
been customized versions of FF for OS/2, but I really have no idea if
updating has been disabled in them. You would probably need to ask in an
OS/2 newsgroup, unless someone else has input.

If this is on Mac OS X, while it is very easy to disable automatic
updating, I don't knwo of a way to disable the Help>>Check for updates
dialog.

Lee



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