The update that just occured in the last few hours (before 3:50 PM in
Phoenix) proports it self to be a security update for firefox 2...
and the result is a full install of 3.0.

I'm trying to avoid 3.0 because it causes streaming video from to keep the
link open a long time after the streaming has stopped, and this can be
disasterous for servers, eventually shutting them down.

If they have fixed that, then it can be considered a security update -
but it should still be spelled out as to exactly what it is!

And with 11.0, the update does not tell you anything about what is being
updated!

With both, to avoid it totally disable the taskbar update procedure and only
use YasT.

John

John Bowling wrote:
> The update that just occured in the last few hours (before 3:50 PM in
> Phoenix) proports it self to be a security update for firefox 2...
> and the result is a full install of 3.0.

The openSUSE update that came out for 2 installs 2.0.0.15, at
least on my computer.

>
> I'm trying to avoid 3.0 because it causes streaming video from to keep the
> link open a long time after the streaming has stopped, and this can be
> disasterous for servers, eventually shutting them down.

There are a surprising amount of add-ons that already work with 3.
It'll only get better.

>
> If they have fixed that, then it can be considered a security update -
> but it should still be spelled out as to exactly what it is!

Again, the openSUSE update for 10.3 for Firefox 2 installs 2.0.0.15...
really it does! I have not idea how you ended up with 3.0 through
that.

Chris Cox wrote:

> John Bowling wrote:
>> The update that just occured in the last few hours (before 3:50 PM in
>> Phoenix) proports it self to be a security update for firefox 2...
>> and the result is a full install of 3.0.
>
> The openSUSE update that came out for 2 installs 2.0.0.15, at
> least on my computer.
>
>>
>> I'm trying to avoid 3.0 because it causes streaming video from to keep
>> the link open a long time after the streaming has stopped, and this can
>> be disasterous for servers, eventually shutting them down.
>
> There are a surprising amount of add-ons that already work with 3.
> It'll only get better.
>
>>
>> If they have fixed that, then it can be considered a security update -
>> but it should still be spelled out as to exactly what it is!
>
> Again, the openSUSE update for 10.3 for Firefox 2 installs 2.0.0.15...
> really it does! I have not idea how you ended up with 3.0 through
> that.
It claimed it was doing 2.0.0.15 and when it was complete 3.0 was what was
there.
John

John Bowling wrote:
....
> It claimed it was doing 2.0.0.15 and when it was complete 3.0 was what was
> there.

Very strange. My machine is 64bit... is yours 32bit? Maybe they
messed up the 32bit update package (??) Can anyone else confirm?

Chris Cox wrote:
> John Bowling wrote:
> ...
>> It claimed it was doing 2.0.0.15 and when it was complete 3.0 was what
>> was
>> there.
>
> Very strange. My machine is 64bit... is yours 32bit?

I've just updated to 2.0.0.15 on a 32bit machine. And it worked as supposed.

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Uwe Hoch wrote:
>
>
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> John Bowling wrote:
>> ...
>>> It claimed it was doing 2.0.0.15 and when it was complete 3.0 was
>>> what was
>>> there.
>>
>> Very strange. My machine is 64bit... is yours 32bit?
>
> I've just updated to 2.0.0.15 on a 32bit machine. And it worked as
> supposed.

Same here. I explicitly checked what's in the update before running it
(as always.)
Must be the guy's own fault.

Luca
--
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you never wanna let people see
how you make 'em: laws and sausages."

The carbonbased lifeform John Bowling inspired alt.os.linux.suse with:
> The update that just occured in the last few hours (before 3:50 PM in
> Phoenix) proports it self to be a security update for firefox 2...
> and the result is a full install of 3.0.

Same happened here, but I had mozilla repositories in my repo list.
After I deleted those, and did a zypper up again, I got 2.0.0.15

Theo
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