On Feb 4, 2008 5:34 PM, Bryan Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > why not include [Firefox 3 Beta] by default early on to get more > > > > testing? > > > > > > Indeed +1 > > > > Or not.... > > Many addons are still not compatible.... > > > So? This would help bring the ones included in Ubuntu that aren't > compatable up to the light. Plus, these are development builds. Things are > allowed to break. > Also:http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly
+1 since https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Alpha4 states in BOLD text: "This is still an alpha release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in April 2008." Pretty much by definition, FF3Beta is more stable than an Ubuntu alpha :) (and we're not talking 'Microsoft Beta' here ;) > > Why force users/testers to manually install and make FF 2.0 the default > > browser? [piggybacking] See above Ubuntu wiki URL regarding Hardy *alpha* "users". One is either *testing* Hardy, masochistic or foolish (or some combination thereof ;) Regarding testers, 'Why force testers to manually install and make FF 3.0 the default browser?' Also, consider the Firefox release cycle; they discontinue support for major versions six months after the release of a new major version. Hardy will be supported for three years. FF3 basically must be the default browser to avoid (as much as possible) the unhappy situation where Ubuntu is doing the security for Firefox instead of Mozilla (consider Dapper still supports 1.5 even though Mozilla pulled support for it in June 2007), so the more testing that can be done, the better. Six months from now would be until Aug. 2008; that's basically only as long as we can guarantee that Mozilla will take care of FF2. Likely the release will be soon, so I'm guessing that FF2 won't be supported past the end of the year. Also, even if FF3 isn't *quite* released in time for Hardy (though I'm fairly certain it will), I think that it should still be made the default and updated when FF3 becomes available (consider that Warty shipped with a pre-1.0 version and updated after the fact). As I recall, there was talk that the LTS release won't be Hardy per se, but a point release shortly after that (e.g. 8.04.1?) where the big wrinkles get ironed out. CK -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
