[Mageia-discuss] Firefox 8

Sun Nov 27 23:29:49 CET 2011

Am 26.11.2011 12:44, schrieb TJ:
+> On 11/25/2011 08:58 AM, Florian Hubold wrote:
+>> Am 25.11.2011 14:49, schrieb TJ:
+>>> My original post wasn't meant to be a complaint on the delay, though reading
+>>> it again I can see where it could be taken that way. I merely wanted to let
+>>> somebody know that Firefox 8.0.1 seemed to be working for me. BTW, I did get
+>>> the notice that the non-USA English language packs were being disabled as
+>>> incompatible, but because they were for FF 7.0.1 and I had downloaded and
+>>> installed just the USA version of 8.0.1, I thought nothing of it.
+>>>
+>>> I admit to being a bit frustrated at not finding anything by myself about why
+>>> it was taking as long as it has, but apparently that's because my search
+>>> skills aren't up to the task. My apologies if anyone took offense.
+>>>
+>>> TJ
+>>>
+>>>
+>> Not taken as a complaint here, but still i wanted to give
+>> some information why it has taken so long.
+>> If you want definitive information, normally there is always
+>> a bug report for such security updates, so you could have
+>> searched bugzilla. Or just poked around on IRC :)
+>>
+> I did search Bugzilla, but either my search phrase wasn't effective, or I
+> just passed over it in the results. Quite possible, either way. No big deal.
+>
+> One other piece of information... The update just came through, with the new
+> other-than-US English language packs. I ran the version of Firefox 8.0.1 that
+> I installed, and the language pack add-ons had been re-activated automatically.
+>
+> TJ
+>
+>
+Best bet would be to click on Search and check Status field is set to all,
+so you also get the already closed reports, too if the update was already
+validated.
+
+For reference, it was this report:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3335
+cloned from the other report, which was used for thunderbird:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3308
+