On 05/11/2009 05:07 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. 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.
I was just thinking the same thing yesterday. After trying to use thunderbird 3.0b2, I have found it unusable.
I have tried a fresh .thunderbird directory and switching to the i586 version from the x86_64 version. It is still horrible. I do have huge folders with 10k+ messages in them. Thunderbird 3.0b2 seems to scan all folders and download all messages. With the fresh .thunderbird I started with a 32mb .thunderbird folder, but after leaving it over night with just one of my three accounts it was up to 2gb.
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