Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

[Christoph Bier]

Ioannis Vranos schrieb am 25.04.2008 14:27:

> 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.

I chose Ubuntu because I want to use new software and a well
preconfigured system---otherwise I was very satisfied with Debian. I
don't have the time to reinstall Gutsy and configure everything
again on Gutsy which wasn't that stable on my machine with
completely new hardware.

Please don't misunderstand me. There's no need for anybody to stand
up for Ubuntu. Ioannis asked for experiences with FFB5 on Ubuntu and
I answered to his question---urgently annoyed =|. With an increasing
lack of time my requirements to software/OS seem to change.[1]

Best
Christoph

[1] There are four Ubuntu machines I have to administrate: My
desktop machine, my wife's and my laptop and my office PC. I'm not
an administrator, just a scientific and typesetting *user* with a
need for efficient and suitable tools (on recent hardware).
Upgrading those four machines and fixing new problems takes me about
two days. That's just too much. Maybe it's necessary! But I'll give
MacOS X a try even if I really don't like proprietary software (my
most important tools will still be FOSS even on MacOS X).
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