Notice to update MozillaFirefox 3.0.x when 3.5.x installed

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Hi All,

I installed FF 3.5 via mozilla repo and removed FF 3.0.x but I keep getting nagged to update to FF 3.0.12.

I can deselect that particular update when updating the system but it’s rather annoying and I don’t know how to get rid of it.

Anyone else have this problem? How’d you solve it?

Is it because the Update repo has a higher priority? But I don’t see how that should matter if FF 3.0.x is removed from the system.

laptop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.5-12.4
MozillaFirefox-3.5.1-3.1

Thanks!

Cheers

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Hi,

Could you please open a terminal and provide the output of typing:

zypper lr --details

Take Care,

Ian

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Hey blender1968,

I hope this helps any. Those are the packages that I’ve currently installed - and with this configuration everything works perfectly. :slight_smile:

TheMask@Superpussy:~> rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
MozillaFirefox-3.5.1-1.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.5-12.2
MozillaFirefox-translations-3.5.1-1.1
beagle-firefox-0.3.8-46.34.1

Good luck!

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TheMask,

The thing is, if his update repo has higher priority, Yast will tell him to upgrade his packages to that of the update repository, even if the packages from a different repository are newer. I just checked and the update repo does have the lower version of firefox. So it’s very likely the update repository priority is the cause.

Take Care,

Ian

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I have had the same & did the update. It will not touch firefox,just xulrunner,nsprr & one other ( can’t remember which atm) I updated 3 days ago with no ill effects.Personally i prefer Seamonkey browser.

Andy

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Strangely, I had this update come via the official repo to a 10.3 system I retained. The distributed (updated) FF version for 10.3 is 2.0.0.22. I tried to install it, but it failed with dependency errors on xulrunner etc. Hmm, it couldn’t satisfy them from the normal distribution repo. I guess someone screwed up.

BTW, do you prefer Seamonkey (on 11.1) for ease of use, or is it faster than FF?? I haven’t tried it yet. :slight_smile:

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I had the same dependency errors on xulrunner etc. until a few days ago. Apperently something has been done. It now updates and installs a new xulrunner, the old one is still there.

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I prefer it as it is an all in one piece of software. It has email,chat,web & web-page creator ( wysiwyg ) all integrated & to me is faster than firefox,as once you use one component,all the rest can be accessed from that component,instead of firing up another prog to take up resources.That’s MHO, try it & see what you think

Andy

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Thanks Andy, your comments particularly on performance are encouraging. I will definitely try it out. Any performance gains are worth considering, given the growing trend for resource hungry software releases these days.

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Someone else posted with the same problem. The solution was given here (I think):

Running Mozilla 3.5 updater wants to update/rollback to 3.0 - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

but I guess that is for KDE environment. I don’t have the same menu structure in Gnome. Particularly the “Update all in this list unconditionally”.

Any other ideas?

Cheers

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You can use the qt interface in gnome over time many have preferred if over the gtk one.

iirc you should have yast-qt some thing like so, then /etc/sysconfig and change the preferred to qt sorry for the vagueness but never done it and have not looked for a long time.

Search in software for something like yast-qt worse case ,try yast or is it yast2, then search sysconfig iirc gui or browse the tree to yast.

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@FeatherMonkey

Thanks!

I edited /etc/sysconfig/yast2 and changed

WANTED_GUI=“qt”

I was able to follow the procedure mentioned before and I have gotten rid of the annoying prompt to update FF 3.0.x.

Cheers