Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

[Ioannis Vranos]

Kristian Rink wrote:
> 
> Of course. :) But then again, to me this doesn't explain why, on a Long
> Term Support system, the default browser to be installed is a beta
> release of a modular, extensible application like Firefox. Knowing that
> (a) a lot of users rely upon plugins, extensions and the like, (b)
> quite some of these are likely not to work with a beta version (if
> they're upgraded to FF3 at all, but that's possibly another story), to
> me this seems like just begging for trouble, knowing in advance
> that this will damage a lot of things to many. Maybe this is the one
> badness that one will remember about the release of 8.04. You're right,
> backing things up before doing an upgrade is one thing. Dapper has had
> Firefox 1.5 in it, preferring stability to "up-to-date" software. I
> don't completely understand why this philosophy seems to have been
> abandoned on the way to Hardy...


I think some wrong decision takes place from time to time. They are not
perfect. :-)

I suppose one can uninstall Firefox 3 Beta, delete the Firefox
configuration directory from the user's home directory, install Firefox
2.0.0.x from universe repository and run it.