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Re: Reports: Problem.... solution....

Subject: Re: Reports: Problem.... solution....
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:54:28 -0500 (EST)
Issue 1: Upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.3
Issue 2: Upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.4
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I tune the list of plugins to only scan for the latest version.  This cleans
up my reports, but it makes maintaining the scan rules a real chore.

Perhaps another way of handling this would be to have the plugin that scans
for version N have something inside it that marks it as superseding plugins
that look for version N-1, N-2,...  A scan option would be to use or not use
this information to turn off the supersceded plugins.

Having suggested this, I have to add that it wouldn't work too well in my
environment.  We have an application used by a few users that requires Java
1.4.  For these users, I don't want to just scan for the latest Java 1.6, I
want to know if they have the lastest in the 1.4 series.
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