I don't want to beat this to death, but...

[Pizbit]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:43:49 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:36:22AM +0100, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > However, Firefox 0.9.3? Yuck.
> 
> Believe me, 1.0PR was a lot more "yuck" as something to put into our stable
> release.  We chose 0.9.3 for good reasons: it is more important to have a
> browser in good working order than to have some new features.

I havn't come across anything bad with 1.0, in fact I've found it much
better than the previous versions.
One solution is to download firefox from the mozilla.org website and
uninstall the mozilla-firefox package then install what you downloaded
somewhere, I'd say in your home dir if you're the only user of the
machine, keeps the permissions stuff simple*grin* and then ln -s
/where-ever/firefox/firefox
 /usr/bin/firefox

> 
> > Since I don't know anything about Debian, this may be a dumb question:
> > Will I have to become a beta tester for Hoary before I can use the latest
> > Firefox, or will I be able to stick to this nice stable base and pluck the
> > latest version out of a development branch in a repository?
> 
> It depends on how things go in the course of Hoary development.  Sometimes
> package dependencies need to change, and in those cases you may not be able
> to install Hoary packages on Warty.  Sometimes you will.
> 
> The only firm plan is that there will be a new stable release in April.
> We hope that Firefox will have a stable 1.0 release by then, which would be
> included in the Hoary release.
> 
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