I try my best to keep my machines here at the house running the latested patches and versions of the software installed on them. I think that most geeks do. Recently I have been using my laptop in the living room instead of my desktops. This means that I can watch things on the big screen, sit on my comfy couch, and still play with the computer. I have neglected my desktop machines for months. I powered them down and left them that way for a good chunk of the winter in order to try to keep the electric bill low. So of course since I started using one of the desktops today I’ve had to patch it, and update several (read: most) of the software on it. I’ve noticed something that Mozilla Firefox users should probably be aware of.
It seems that the Firefox 1.0.x tree will not upgrade itself to the 1.5.x tree. You have go out and manually download and install 1.5.x and then it will upgrade itself appropriately. I think that 1.5.0.3 is the current release as of this article. This was on WinXP patched to current.