[ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 in Hardy

Pete Stean peteste at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 28 22:55:27 BST 2008


Well my bank won't accept FF3 as a valid browser, and support for the
online part of Picasa, picasa web albums is virtually non-existent in
FF3. It's also stupidly crashy  :\   I bl**dy hate it tbh  I've
stripped it out of my install completely and I'm going back to FF2

Pete

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Gavin Ford <revford at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:24:10PM +0100, Colin McCarthy wrote:
>  > What I can't believe is that a Long Term Support release has beta software
>  > as the default browser!!!!  How can Canonical expect companies to use 8.04
>  > LTS on all their desktop when the first thing that Admins need to do is go
>  > BACK round and install FF2 so you can use any plugin.
>
>  The alternative would be to try the Iceweasel packages from Debian.
>
>  Iceweasel is Debian's build of Firefox 2, they name change is partly so they
>  can continue to patch and support it beyond the lifetime of the official
>  Mozilla builds.
>
>  Debian packages should work on Ubuntu, but I've not tried it.
>
>  --
>  Gav Ford
>  revford at blueyonder.co.uk
>  http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
>  I think we need to:  Bypass the gyro flow
>
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