[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

[Daniel Kreuter]

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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