[Mageia-discuss] Firefox 8

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Fri Nov 25 14:58:48 CET 2011


Am 25.11.2011 14:49, schrieb TJ:
> On 11/25/2011 06:02 AM, Florian Hubold wrote:
>
>> Another problem was that f.ex. our language pack was shown as:
>>
>>      Installed by: 3rd party.
>>
>> which would have given a bad impression.
>> Otherwise this new "feature" of firefox doesn't make sense on linux,
>> if you have some systemwide installed plugins, then root must have
>> installed them, and if you don' trust root anymore, then we can throw
>> our whole security system out the door :)
>>
>> Sorry that the update took so long, for reference the update itself
>> was available in SVN since Nov. 6, but there were various issues
>> that needed to be fixed, and dmorgan was busy as always (no offense)
>> so in order to get out a properly working update, it took a bit more time.
>>
> 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 :)


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