Looking For Info On Updating Firefox & Open Office

[Nathan Bahn]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> [...]
>
> You may be misinformed about the ability to get updates -- the Ubuntu
> packages of Firefox AND OpenOffice get frequent updates that address
> security issues; just very few feature updates for any particular
> Ubuntu release. (Look carefully at the version numbering and updates
> for Firefox -- every time there is an announced security issue you can
> expect to see an updated version to address it; the difference from
> using the Mozilla version is that the Firefox version won't change in
> the same way. OpenOffice gets relatively few security updates, so you
> won't see so many.) One serious advantage of this is that if you have
> a web service or site that depends upon a particular quirk of Firefox,
> there should be no unpleasant surprises or breakages after a security
> update.
>
> As for the OpenOffice version, you may discover that Ubuntu includes
> some of the Go-OO patches -- http://go-oo.org/ -- so if you install an
> "official" OpenOffice .deb you will lose those enhancements. SO you
> may find you are happier with the Ubuntu version than the official
> one, even if it does not have the higher version number you are
> looking for.
>
> [...]




T.T.--

I guess that I should have been explicit about my reasons for wanting the
latest updates of Firefox and Open Office.  It's not for me; it's for one of
my housemates.  She has a Yahoo! email account; and an email that she was
printing out would only come out in something like size 8 font.  I tried
copying and pasting to Open Office and Open Office crashed whenever I tried
to print the resulting document.  What I ended up doing was -- from her
computer --  to forward her email from her Yahoo! email account to my Gmail
account.  Then (again, from her computer) I accessed my Gmail account and
used Firefox to print up the said email in readable font size.

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that for whatever reason that that
version of Firefox does not play well with either Yahoo! or Open Office.
That is why I want to upload the latest versions of Firefox and Open Office
onto her machine; I want to see if the latest version of Firefox can print a
readable font-sized email, or (failing that) if the latest versions of
Firefox and Open Office can be induced (via the clipboard) to print
something at a readable font size.

Anyway, I'm now going to see if that that housemate is still up will let me
work on her computer at this hour.

--N.B.
-- 
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html &
http://www.openoffice.org (Nathan Bahn)
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