As someone mentioned on /. when this came up, there's also a firefox 2 package available from apt, so you certainly have the option to go with that if you'd rather. When the Firefox 3 release comes out I'm sure that will be available from backports, although you're not guaranteed the same timely bug and security fixes with those.
Regards, Nick brian raszap wrote: > yes. its a Long Term Support version. they must ship things that will > be supported in 3 to 5 years from now. firefox two doesnt qualify, > firefox 3 beta 5 does. > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Elliott Sprehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > They're seriously shipping a Beta version of Firefox in release > versions of Ubuntu? Wow. > > On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Ed Kohlwey wrote: > > I've been running Hardy for about a month, and I've followed the > upgrades pretty closely. I'm quite happy with it. A number of > minor bugs > were fixed with my ACPI, and theres numerous application > upgrades that > are nice (Firefox 3, Gnome, etc.). The new default theme is > also more > vibrant... not that you can't change them, but it's nice to > see that > kind of attention to detail. > > IMHO, worth the upgrade. > >
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