[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

Thu Jun 16 16:18:07 CEST 2011

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com>wrote:
+
+> 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.
+>
+
+Ok Mozilla has the RC1 released. Final shall come on Tuesday 21st June so
+yeah we will include that in Mageia 2 I think (as least this one, maybe FF6
+or 7 depending on which version will be available i think)
+
+-- 
+Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+
+Greetings
+
+Daniel Kreuter
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