On 5/11/2009 8:07 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > OK, first off, why in $DEITY's name are we including Firefox 3.5b4 and > Thunderbird 3.0b2 in Fedora 11? These are unstable branches of the > browser and email client, and as such are supported by almost none of > the myriad of extensions available for the 3.0 and 2.0 versions, > respectively. > > I was more than a little disappointed when I upgraded my laptop to the > F11 Preview to discover that only two out of seven of my Thunderbird > extensions and three of my thirteen Firefox extensions remained functional. Depending on exactly what extensions that you have if you *download* them you can change this. Open the .xpi, or .jar, with the archive tool. Open the file named 'install.rdf' with your text editor and look for the line that says "<em:maxVersion>". Change that number to the version that you are using. Or even a little higher if you like. Save and update the 'install.rdf', close the archive tool, and install your new extension. This works for most themes too. > I understand that Fedora is a development OS, and I think it's a great > idea to have a firefox35 package and a thunderbird30 package, but these > SHOULD NOT be the defaults. > > Taking away the full functionality of a developer's web browser and > email client is an incredible step backwards for Fedora 11. The default > install of Fedora 11 should include the latest STABLE versions of > Firefox and Thunderbird, and then provide an OPTION to replace them with > the unstable development branch. > > I would understand if Firefox and Thunderbird were in their release > candidate phase, and we could reasonably expect that within three months > that they would hit final release. Firefox has no definitive (or even > approximate) release date scheduled, and Thunderbird is only in its > second beta. There is little-to-no guarantee that either of these > products will be deemed stable before Fedora 12, and I think it is a > severe mistake to make them the default before then. > > If nothing else, consider this an open request to the Firefox, > Thunderbird and Lightning maintainers to provide a compatibility package > that can downgrade and replace the unstable and non-extensible versions > currently in the distribution. > > -- David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
