For firefox or thunderbird or both
do the following
su -
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.4/ mozilla
zypper ref
(a) to accept key if asked
zypper dup -r mozilla
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:36:03 +0000, rafter22 wrote:
> Add-ons are the responsibility of the creator of the Add-on to update to
> work with new versions of Mozilla products.
Like openSUSE are responsible for their extensions not working with FF5?
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4; KDE 4.6.4; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210; Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA);
Wireless: BCM4306
On 06/29/2011 11:33 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I don’t like it. It’s madness, changing major versions so fast.
well, look at it a different way:
soon we will have the chance to use Firefox 12 (or 22, or 222), and
think how GREAT it will be to have a number so much bigger than any
other browser has!!!
oh WAIT!! it is madness, isn’t it!!!
On 2011-06-30 17:02, DenverD wrote:
> On 06/29/2011 11:33 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> I don’t like it. It’s madness, changing major versions so fast.
>
> well, look at it a different way:
>
> soon we will have the chance to use Firefox 12 (or 22, or 222), and think
> how GREAT it will be to have a number so much bigger than any other
> browser has!!!
So, size does matter? >;-)
> oh WAIT!! it is madness, isn’t it!!!
Right…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
For some reason i think they want to distance them self from 4. Perhaps it was c***.
By that release cycle you should see 12 by the end of the year.
Does this actually indicate a major upgrade or is the purpose to confuse everyone. Glad i am not a app developer. Once you made it for one version, the next one is already out.
Yes, it is stupid. And if those numbers were money, it would be a sign of devaluation - Time to get rid of Firefox stock options!(?) lol!
FF5 is out in normal 11.4 updates, just make sure you have Mozilla openSUSE branding to or it may not work. All my add ons worked ok (no surprise as I use similar set to on 'dows where get FF direct from Mozilla. As Mozilla are rolling in security fixes with these updates and not supporting FF 4, only need for extra repo would be to test, upcoming versions & the openSUSE’s team integrations.
As Mozilla is a non-profit organisation, the time to be rid of the stock was in the Netscape glory days, 10 years ago or so 
What’s wrong with getting bug fixes & new features, sooner in smaller steps? Lots of the time Add Ons are going to be compatible or have small tweaks to unbreak them, as most releases will inevitbly be small incremental improvments.
BTW : Linus is coming out with kernel 3.0 very soon… be very afraid! :lol:
On 2011-07-01 01:36, please try again wrote:
> Time to get rid of Firefox stock options!(?) lol!
X’-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I’ve been using Firefox (Iceweasel) 6.0 under Debian.
There’s talk that 7.0 will be alpha by September.
Firefox is trying to catch up with some of the other browsers.
Honestly I only use it for video. Regular browsing I use Chromium & forums or anywhere I have to login I use Midori.
No, they see chrome/chromium getting publicity with rapid major releases, and are thinking ‘We want some of that’. Unfortunately, as they have said that they will only support the current major version, this means that, by the back door, they have reduced support to 3 or 4 months. This, with the need to revalidate stuff, is a disaster in the enterprise, and would be pretty bad for ‘ordinary Joe’ users, if they took any notice. The only people who aren’t sh*fted by this are Geeks, who are the only ones who went for the immediate update, whatever happened.
Pity, 'cos 4 is the first version of FF that I’ve actually liked using.
Regard 5.0 as 4.0.2, it’s just minor changes.
FF 6 is from what I heard also minor.
FF 7, should have some interesting improvements and is true Major release; performance enhancements include more efficient use of memory avoiding heavy fragmentation by partial use of 1MiB allocations, combined with more frequent garbage collection. So it should re-use pages better, consume less and run faster causing fewer page faults. These just missed time window for inclusion in FF6.
Would be cool if FF7 is decently stable in September, as that’s when 12.1 Beta happens, with the next openSUSE release being 12.1 RC1, so including significant changes will give more reason to help by testing.
Chromium apart from video issues also lacks fully featured security plugin “noscript”, according to LWN reporting “Notscript” equivalent lacks much of noscripts features.
Firefox 7.0a2 is in the Aurora channel now. Firefox 6.0b1 is in the Beta channel now.
Mozilla Firefox — Download the Aurora or Beta Build or Download & Test the Future of Firefox
After fixing a couple of problems by removing openSUSE extension, I
eventually discovered that unattended daily crashes were fixed - so far
at any rate - by complete uninstall of the openSUSE-branding module.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4; KDE 4.6.5; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210; Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA);
Wireless: BCM4306
7.0a2 (2011-07-09) seems to work OK, quite a few plugins are there to, including NoScript, AdblockPlus, WoT, and HashColouredTabs+.
Haven’t got flash working, not sure why it’s not looking in the browser plugin directory 
$ FF=$HOME/firefox PATH=$FF:$PATH LDPATH=$FF $HOME/firefox/firefox
(firefox:18954): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
(firefox:18954): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
The run-mozilla.sh script, I didn’t get to work right, it kept running FF5 for some reason, I trust Adobe about as far as I can throw them so I guess it’s a feature, until I want to test FlashBlock
Usual probem post FF4, it’s not easy to notice what’s changed!
This seems like a windows only change http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2011/06/07/firefox-7-ui-change/ as we can only get the FF button with the tabs not in Window Manager area anyway.
Firefox 7 enters Aurora channel, improves memory usage - http://www.techspot.com/news/44606-firefox-7-enters-aurora-channel-improves-memory-usage.html