Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

[Ioannis Vranos]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> 
> It is, and I'd call FF3b stable in every sense of the word except as a release identifier.
> It is stable in terms of functionality and look and feel - it's not going to look or work any different by the time it hits release.
> It is stable in terms of usability - it is far less prone to crashes than much else that is available (including its predecessor)
> 
> I really don't see how Ubuntu could have done it any other way. To include FF2.x now and at some point spring FF3.x on unsuspecting users goes completely against any notion of common sense, and to include FF2.x now and not upgrade until long after the end of support for FF2.x is also a pretty stupid idea.
> 
> It's not a _good_ decision, but it's the best they could manage, so far as I can see. It's just an unfortunate mis-scheduling of software releases...


Just speaking objectively here. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x and its
accompanying clones Scientific Linux 4.x and CentOS 4.x, provided
Firefox 1.0.x in the beginning, and when Firefox 1.5 final became
available they switched to 1.5. I didn't encounter any update issues
when I was using SL 4.x x86 when this happened, it was a welcome stable
update.