Whenever you open firefox on a client, it asks you if you want to update firefox. But normal users don’t have the power to update firefox on the machine. So I went through and did that.
First I updated firefox on tempest using the remi package. I followed the instructions at http://www.tecmint.com/install-firefox-in-rhelcentos-6-3-fedora-17-16/
Then Scott and I checked out the remi package to make sure we weren’t just downloading from a sketchy package. But it seems like this guy who manages the remi package is nice and lots of people trust him. If nothing else, we might be able to get the next firefox release through this package and that would save us some trouble.
Today I ran ah-broadcast of the commands from the link above. And they seemed to work on some of the machines, ones that were up. I still have to check that these changes actually made an effect, but I think they did!
Turns out that the firefox update did not work on at least thrush, so I still need to go in and check whether each has actually updated. And also to read the logs to see if the ah-broadcast worked.