[Bug 89704] Re: No backport of Firefox 2.o to Dapper

hk47 bugtracker at slideomania.com
Mon Apr 30 07:33:27 UTC 2007


I for my part would be happy if Firefox stayed at 1.5 in Dapper.
Unfortunately, AFAIK there's no Plastikfox-theme available for Firefox
2, so I would lose my (cosmetical) KDE integration with an upgraded
Firefox. Debian shows that it's possible to support an outdated Firefox
securitywise; Firefox in Sarge is still at 1.0.4. But I'm quite sure
that nobody begrudges Sarge's Firefox maintainers for their job, and
Debian announced  that they "cannot predict it today, but during the
lifetime of etch the Debian Security Team may come to a point where
supporting Mozilla products is no longer feasible and announce the end
of security support for Mozilla products"[1].

And as an add on to your last paragraph; (careful, rhetorical rant
ahead!) how can the FLOSS community blame Adobe for not releasing a 64
bit Flash plugin for Firefox, when not even Mozilla Corp. supplies and
supports a "retail" 64 bit Firefox themselves? Isn't it quite a shame,
that the vendor of one of the worlds mostly used open source software
(just my personal assumption) behaves just as ignorant regarding 64 bit
computing as the rest of the closed source vendors?

Sometimes I must ask myself, why I'm not switching to Konqueror for web
browsing. Ah, yes, nspluginwrapper doesn't work with Konqueror (*bites
himself*).

[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-
information.en.html#s-mozilla-security

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No backport of Firefox 2.o to Dapper
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