[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

[Ahmad Samir]

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