[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

Wed Jun 15 22:38:44 CEST 2011

On 15 June 2011 13:35, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+I'm with Ahmad, going for beta for testing seems right. The beta
+release stage should be long enough for issues to be sorted so aurora
+isn't needed.
+