Off topic, I know. Hoho, thanks for the advice, but I use FC4. The repositories won't update until I go to FC5 or 6. Not sure I want to, comfortable where I am.

Wow, RedHat sucks more than I thought. They don't put FF in the old repos? WTF

By the way, you can probably find another Yum repository with updates or download Firefox manually to update it.

You sure are stupid.

FF is in their old repos. But every so often they need to stop supporting/maintaining 5 year old versions of their FREE distros. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure RedHat isn't made of money. And besides, even MS drops maintenance of Windows after 5 or so years.

Um, why yould a 5 year old version of a distro be so similar just any package will work across versions? Honestly?

Have you tried lately? Using windows update (the parallel to RedHat's repos). I believe even w98 windows update is no longer available, and MEs is coming soon if it isn't already gone. Oh sure, you might be able to get the bug fixes you missed installing, for the versions that do work, but for at least 95, it won't even let you in iirc. (my dad has a 95 osr2 machine, and a 98 machine, both of which I've had the pleasure of administering).

Well, continuing the FC4 analogy, you download the source and do ./configure && make && sudo make install

Because sudo is more convenient and doesn't require giving out the root password

Well, the latest version FOR Windows 95 would be the last version available for it, and you can go to oldversion.com or something.

Yeah, so anything that can get your normal user account doesn't need to bother with that pesky root password and can just take root access rights

Thomas, HoHo and anyone else who extolls the virtue of Firefox 1.5 see:
http://allegro.cc/forums/thread/589923

You can't but that has nothing to do with

-- as IE7 is not the latest version of IE for windows 95...

Anyway, I've found that the more tech-savy people get, the less likely they are to use myspace (or work for them), so there's kind of an inverse-corelation going on, yes?

So it's simple why you're the only one who has found it...

Also, in my Firefox, a box is checked automatically that says to warn me if a site tries to install software, and I'm running 2.0.0.1.

Also, they might have not asked you, because they're suffering a lot of heat from some higher up about the suspect vulnerability, and either have no way of contacting you (possibly an issue of protocol), or don't want to contact you because of pride.

Myspace is horribly designed also -- when someone saves their profile, it saves to a huge clogged slow database... IMO, they should render HTML pages once per edit, and then the server could easily send out pages it needed to. Instead of waiting 5 minutes for a freaking profile to load half of the time... if they had any dynamically changing content like ads etc, they could be generated using shtml includes...

Go ahead and give me details on the exploit and I'll get them to fix it They work fast with a worm on the loose.

Btw, does latest FF works on <=win98? Some time ago there were talks they would cut the support to make code simpler.

Well said.

When you don't apply parends, you read from left to right.

ex: 6-5+4 == (6-5)+4 != 6-(5+4)

Ummm, no, that's not what I meant.

I meant that when Myspace does work, pages take damn near 3 minutes to render.
Also, a lot of times, pages don't work -- you'll click on home to go to your profile, and if it does ever load, it comes up with "An unexpected error has occured" -- as if they were expecting some errors but not others, or what?

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