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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5</H1>
<B>Donald Stewart</B>
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<I>Wed Jun 15 22:38:44 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 15 June 2011 13:35, Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On 14 June 2011 14:32, Frank Griffin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> On 06/14/2011 08:22 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Upgrading stable firefox to firefox5rc and importing firefox-{beta,aurora}
</I>>>><i> are two distinct orthogonal things IMHO.
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</I>>>><i> since firefox5 is near being released, I think we should update
</I>>>><i> main xulrunner+firefox to 5 anyway
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> Whatever we do, please don't put it in Core to replace FF4 until the add-ons
</I>>><i> have been updated.  It was really annoying to lose the Tor add-on for months
</I>>><i> because the beta FF4 just showed up and replaced FF3, and the Tor add-on
</I>>><i> wasn't updated until the release or just before.
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</I>><i> As I said, we have to have the Beta versions, so as to work out the
</I>><i> niggles to be ready to push the stable version to stable releases
</I>><i> (Mageia 1).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> You can always workaround the compatibility, either:
</I>><i> - Adding it manually <A HREF="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility</A> OR
</I>><i> - Using this extension
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> in my experience, 90% of the time the addon will work with a new
</I>><i> version of FF (but then again I use a limited number of addons).
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</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Ahmad Samir
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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.
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