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viga

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Registered: 2007-06-12

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Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

Is there an upgrade for firefox 3.0.6?  I know arch uses grandparadiso.  Where can I get it?

Thanks

evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

the current version of firefox in extra is still 3.0.5 right now

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

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Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

yaourt -S firefox-optimized.  Version 3.0.6.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-02-09 05:39:10)

AndyRTR

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Registered: 2005-10-07

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Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

yaourt -S firefox-optimized.  Version 3.0.6.

Though it's called "3.0.6." it's indeed not 3.0.6! It's based on the old xulrunner and doesn't have all the (sec)fixes that are needed. We're waiting for the xulrunner tarball to be released or a developer who has time enough to do a cvs checkout with the right branch tag.

Just be warned about the incorrect AUR package!

-Andy

quarkup

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Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

anyway, you got this in aur:

aur/firefox-pgo 3.0.6-1 (27)
    Mozilla Firefox, the way it should be packaged (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Buildi … timization). Replacement for firefox-spookyet. XULRunner independent

aur/firefox-pgo-beta 3.1b2-1 (11)
    Mozilla Firefox, the way it should be packaged (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Buildi … timization). Replacement for firefox-spookyet. XULRunner independent

aur/firefox-beta 3.1b2-2 (25)
    Standalone web browser from mozilla.org, beta build.

Last edited by quarkup (2009-02-09 09:39:13)

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Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

yaourt -S firefox-optimized.  Version 3.0.6.

Though it's called "3.0.6." it's indeed not 3.0.6! It's based on the old xulrunner and doesn't have all the (sec)fixes that are needed. We're waiting for the xulrunner tarball to be released or a developer who has time enough to do a cvs checkout with the right branch tag.

Just be warned about the incorrect AUR package!

Quoted so people read that again.  For most fixes, it is xulrunner that needs updated so the "3.0.6" version in AUR are useless...

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

anyway, you got this in aur:

aur/firefox-pgo 3.0.6-1 (27)
    Mozilla Firefox, the way it should be packaged (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Buildi … timization). Replacement for firefox-spookyet. XULRunner independent

I got this last night, so far it's working good. 

Can someone be kind enough to explain the diff between this package, the "official" one in extra, the firefox-optimized, and firefox-spookyet packages?  (i know there's about a dozen other "firefox" packages out there, but these are the main ones i've built over the last few months, and so far i'd say spookyet and pgo were the ones that seemed snappier and more stable). 

I've seen the mozconfig's on all of these, and they have a lot of minor (and a couple of major) differences, but both the AUR and PKGBUILDs provide very little useful info on what they actually do different.

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phisphere

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Registered: 2007-03-05

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Re: Is Firefox 3.0.6 available on arch?

i use bin32-firefox and it was updated quite quickly.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18077