Ubuntu 8.04 mit Firefox 3 != fatal combination !

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 17 00:45:52 UTC 2008


On 04/14/2008 11:21 AM, Thilo Six wrote:

> 
> This was done upon good rationale.
> 
> 1. Hardy is an *LTS* means all mozilly products will have to be supported for
>    3 years with security updates.
>    The way upstream is making their security updates is difficult to support
>    a complex app like the firefox for that long.
> 
> 2. This decission (see 1.) had to be done ~4 months ago.
> 
> 3. I have used ff beta as long as i use hardy and it's all but unstable.
>    (some plugins have not been updated for ff 3.0 though)
> 
> 4. ff 2.0.0.13 is still available for everybody who wants it and in fact i
>    have them both in parallel here.
> 
> 

Thilo, that all makes very good sense. Now I wonder if we can convince U
to do the same with SeaMonkey (now that U have finally stopped the
IceApe nonsense in Hardy) and OpenOffice... Yes, I know - launchpad is
that-a-way ==> :-)





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