[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

Wed Jun 15 22:35:38 CEST 2011

On 14 June 2011 14:32, Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
+> On 06/14/2011 08:22 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+>>
+>> Upgrading stable firefox to firefox5rc and importing firefox-{beta,aurora}
+>> are two distinct orthogonal things IMHO.
+>>
+>> since firefox5 is near being released, I think we should update
+>> main xulrunner+firefox to 5 anyway
+>>
+> Whatever we do, please don't put it in Core to replace FF4 until the add-ons
+> have been updated.  It was really annoying to lose the Tor add-on for months
+> because the beta FF4 just showed up and replaced FF3, and the Tor add-on
+> wasn't updated until the release or just before.
+>
+
+As I said, we have to have the Beta versions, so as to work out the
+niggles to be ready to push the stable version to stable releases
+(Mageia 1).
+
+You can always workaround the compatibility, either:
+- Adding it manually http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility OR
+- Using this extension
+https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
+
+in my experience, 90% of the time the addon will work with a new
+version of FF (but then again I use a limited number of addons).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+