[Mageia-discuss] FF 15 and TB 15

[Marc Paré]

Bonjour Sébastien,

Le 2012-09-02 12:09, Chopin Sébastien a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to have Firefox 15 and Thunderbird 15 in update media ?
>
> Sébastien
>

Yes, just download both software into their own folders and start them 
from their folders. If you do this, then I would suggest you remove the 
Mageia version off your machine through the MCC -- this will stop you 
from starting the Mageia version which will confuse you.

HOWEVER, be warned that if you do this, you can sometimes run into 
dependency problems. This is why our great Mageia devs use the Firefox 
ESR and Thunderbird ESR versions (Extended Support Release)[1] which are 
official corporate versions of these packages. There are fewer upgrades 
but ALL security patches are sent in from Mozilla AND our Mageia devs 
make sure that all dependencies/bugs are covered/fixed properly.

IMO, it is safer to use the Mageia version than the latest from Mozilla.

NOTE: I am not a Mageia dev.

Cheers,

Marc

[1] 
http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-extended-support-release/


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