[Bug 68158] A newb's perspective

[John Dong]

On 11/8/06, dsurber <dnsurber at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> John Dong wrote:
> >Firefox's official binaries are quite simple to unpack into a home
> > directory and create a launcher.... It doesn't take much effort at
> > all to set up your own Firefox 2.0.
>
> John Dong wrote:
> > it's not technically feasible
>
> Does anyone besides me find the above two statements contradictory?
>
> I'm just a user, a sophisticated user, but a newbie to Linux. I find the
> idea that Firefox 2.0 will not soon be available in Dapper unfathomable.
> Don't feed me a lot of technical rationalizations. John said it is easy
> to do, so do it. Installing it on my Win2k box was no problem and that's
> 6 years old. Since Dapper is in LTS, do you honestly expect me to be
> running Firefox 1.5 three years from now? Get real.


No, they don't contradict. I am saying that it's simple to install two
versions of Firefox side-by-side using the method I outlined, but it is not
simple at all to replace the system's version of Firefox with 2.0 instead of
1.5 for the reasons I outlined.

With that said, nothing _prevents_ a separate "firefox2" package from being
created that installs a "firefox2" program so that it doesn't fight with the
system's firefox 1.5, but that's not in the scope or authority of the
Backports project.


This will all be smoother in a future version of Ubuntu, when the firefox
browser doesn't provide HTML rendering services to other apps, but a
separate dedicated package will.

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Firefox 2.0
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68158