Red Hat backports many fixes, instead of rebasing to latest.  It's actually an 
_added_ burden they incur, to mitigate changes in the profiles.

I.e., there are many enterprises who maintain a full GNOME-Firefox profile set, 
and a rebase of Firefox can cause issues.  Even when Red Hat rebases in an 
Update Beta, there are still some organizations that complain when the Update 
release comes out, and breaks a few profiles.

Many times some Firefox bugs are only found in newer versions.  And other 
times, sometimes the fixes break compatibility, when the issue isn't as much of 
a detail as people make it (especially Win32-only stuff that doesn't affect 
Linux).




----- Original Message -----
From: Todd And Margo Chester <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2011 9:40 PM

That was pretty much Red Hat's attitude.  Didn't matter how important 
Mozilla.org thought they were.  I remember referencing them some pretty 
important/scary stuff.
Red Hat doesn't care.  I think Red Hat thinks Mozilla.org just puts out 
too much stuff for them to bother keeping up with.  Unusual for Red Hat,
as my other experiences with them are that they are pretty responsive to
requests from me.  Red  Hat has garnered a lot of good will with me in
the past, especially with them  fixing my cut a data DVD, ruin your hard
drive problem.
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