If you read the bug report, he wasn't complaining about the requirement for root to update, only that it did not ask for it and simply tries to update and crashes.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Robert Marino" <prmari...@gmail.com> To: "Todd And Margo Chester" <toddandma...@gmail.com>, "scientific-linux-users" <scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov> Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:03:29 PM Subject: Re: advice on using latest firefox from mozilla Todd and Margo (I'm never sure who I'm addressing with you lol) There is a long standing security reason non root users can't update software which affect all users on the system. Remember over all *ux design is based on a multi user model where only people granted root access by password access or even better sudo access can affect all users. This is a good thing, it was done in response to computer viruses in the 70s. -- Sent from my HP Pre3 On Jun 6, 2013 7:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: On 06/06/2013 01:18 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > I have had no > problems at all, except that the updates can not be installed > by the users -- you have to fire up Firefox as root. I just filed this: Linux upgrade required root privileges. And, it's looking good for implementation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=880504 "Ya All" please vote for it! -T