firefox provides firefox.tar.gz for linux users who want to install firefox themselves.
but linux such as opensuse will be released with firefox. so this firefox is rebuilt from source or just pick the contents in firefox.tar.gz? i mean if the versions between firefox in opensuse and firefox.tar.gz are the same, are they the same(everthing… buildconfig?)?
The released version is different, it’s the same application, but what you download direct from mozilla is going to differ in version, at least most of the time. And of course the SUSE version is a openSUSE package and will receive updates as and when via the updates channel.
You can add the community build service repo for mozilla to get a more up to date version too.
While it may sound as if the answer to that question is a ‘no-brainer’, surprisingly the answer is no, at least when looked at functionally.
If you get a .tar.gz and hand install it, you go around package management, so yast/zypper/rpm -whatever won’t know anything about it, and if, for example, you rely on rpm -qa in any scripts to know what and what versions are installed on your system, you’ll get it wrong. So, at least in the systems management sense they aren’t the same, even if they are the same source code and SuSE doesn’t modify it (and doesn’t SuSE modify the start page location?).
You could conceivably build your own rpm from the sources, but I don’t know of many people who do that, even though it could be quite a good idea.
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Along those lines…
rpm -qi MozillaFirefox
It was built on a SUSE server so it’s definitely SUSE’s. The rest of what
caf4926 applies as well. With that said extracting the .tar.gz somewhere
and just using it often works (I did it a couple weeks ago with a beta of
3.5) though I would recommend backing up your preferences directory in
your home directory just in case the new version munges something you
value like bookmarks, history, other settings, etc.
Good luck.
caf4926 wrote:
> The released version is different, it’s the same application, but what
> you download direct from mozilla is going to differ in version, at least
> most of the time. And of course the SUSE version is a openSUSE package
> and will receive updates as and when via the updates channel.
>
> You can add the community build service repo for mozilla to get a more
> up to date version too.
>
>
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