Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Fri Apr 25 15:06:32 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 17:54 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Why?

Because it is against all Debian and Ubuntu traditions, which exist for
a reason: when making such a big change like FF2 to FF3, there WILL be
some issues. Whenever you make the switch, unless you wait for months
after FF3 going stable, some extensions WILL not have updated yet.

You cannot force those issue on people through a simple, "normal"
upgrade during the lifetime of Ubuntu 8.04, as they would not expect it.
Ubuntu guarantees that after release there are only security updates and
updates for major issues, and that the functionality will not change.

When making a big distro upgrade like 6.06 to 8.04, people are prepared
to deal with some issues (or should be, we all know from recent
discussions that some are not)





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