Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

[Ioannis Vranos]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 01:06 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> So, the simplest approach to this could be the "firefox-3" package to be
>> the current stable version of Firefox, 2.0.0.x, until Firefox 3 final
>> became available.
> 
> You misunderstood. The issue is not that the package would need to stay
> the same. The issue is that you cannot switch over people from FF2 to
> FF3 in the middle of the lifetime of Ubuntu 8.04. 8.04 is not only used
> by hobbyists and home users, but in some large installations who don't
> want to deal with the resulting fallout of such a fundamental switch.
> 
> As I said before already, the right and only time to make a major FF
> version switch is from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. Unfortunately, this meant
> having to do the initial release with the Beta.


I do not think there would be any problems on switching from 2 stable to
3 stable. I think Firefox releases are made compatible with the previous
version's user profiles.

Also noone guarantees that Firefox 3 Beta user profiles will not change
until the final release. I think it is more guaranteed that Firefox 3
final will recognise and upgrade Firefox 2 user profiles than it is
guaranteed that it will recognise and upgrade any previous Firefox 3
Beta user profiles, if they make any change to them, since it is a Beta.