Where's FireFox 1.0?

[Philippe Landau]

Romeyn Prescott wrote:
> I'm new to Debian-style package distribution, so I have to ask: Where's 
> FireFox 1.0?  I was showing off Ubuntu to a colleague and he kind of 
> turned his nose up at the fact that 1.0 of FireFox isn't in the list of 
> available packages.  How long does it typically take for released 
> software to filter down to the package tree?  I don't see it in the 
> "Universe" listing either.
Canonical thinks updated software could break the system,
so except for security patches they only update things twice a year,
delivering a tested system, next is 2005-04-06 hoary release.

of course you can use hoary in it's alpha state:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GuideToHoary/
firefox 1 is working there, but there are problems with x.

many have installed firefox on warty, the current release:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4206&highlight=firefox+1
because firefox 0.93 is beta and lacking.

Tweaking Ubuntu after your first installation:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3713&highlight=firefox
includes making firefox faster.

kind regards     philippe