[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

[Donald Stewart]

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.