CentOS - Feb 2008 - Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1

Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest 
versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them 
using yum ?

Edward Diener wrote:
> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest 
> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them 
> using yum ?
> 
http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php

The [yjl-ff2] repo has firefox 2, thunderbird 2, and rebuilds of some 
apps that are gecko-libs dependent (yelp and devhelp)

They are rebuilds of Fedora 8 src.rpm's (with very minor mod to firefox 
2 spec file).

Edward Diener wrote:
> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest 
> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them 
> using yum ?
to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2 
binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep 
updated on a limited number of machines.

I also use the OpenOffice.org 2.3.x binaries on my workstation from OOo.

Keeping both of these cutting edge (just on workstations) from upstream 
seems to work and is not too difficult.

CentOS will be adding Firefox-3.0 to CentOS-5 (and maybe CentOS-4) 
centosplus when it is released upstream.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest 
>> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them 
>> using yum ?
> 
> to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2 
> binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep 
> updated on a limited number of machines.
but their build of firefox is linked against a different libstdc++ so 
some browser plugins (ie icedtea and xine-plugin) will not work with 
their build, unless you rebuild them against the older libstdc++

That's really too bad - because in my experience, the mozilla builds are 
more stable than the rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's that I'm using. Well - 
2.0.0.12 hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only been running it a few 
days (2.0.0.10 rpm install would often crash when opening a dialog box)