On 05/11/2009 05:37 PM, 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. > > 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. As a very heavy user of both Firefox and Thunderbird, the pre-releases have been substantial improvements for me over the "stable" versions. Even RHEL 5.3 included a "beta" release of Firefox, remember? I trust that the maintainers have assessed the stability and considered the advantages as worth the cost of losing some extensions for the short run and I agree with that decision. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
