Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

[Ioannis Vranos]

Christoph Bier wrote:

>> In any case, I would like to see if anyone has/had any troubles with
>> Firefox 3 Beta 5 on Ubuntu 8.04 final.
> 
> Yes, and it really bothers me! None of my Add-ons works anymore,
> sound does not work and after installing FF2---yes, it had to be
> reinstalled, because it was removed by the upgrade---the previous
> session with about 30 opened webpages with very important research
> content couldn't be restored. I'm that displeased with this upgrade
> again---previous upgrades took me so much time, too---that I'll
> check out Mac OS X now---after 10 ten years of Linux ... As a former
> Debian user I was really pleased by the birth of Ubuntu and spread
> it where it was possible. But an upgrade shouldn't be that time
> consuming for users. YMMV


You can always install Ubuntu 7.10 which works very well, was released
before 6 months and is very stable.