On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:57 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 07/28/2010 01:08 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> On 07/27/2010 10:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>> > >>> Are we skipping Firefox 4 for Fedora 14? Beta 2 has been released > >>> recently and I am wondering if we can go with it if it fits into the > >>> schedule. There are dozens of new features including WebM support that > >>> would be nice to have. > > > > -1 didn't the last time we started using a pre-release from Mozilla turn > > out pretty bad for us? > > That was Firefox 3.0 included as RC in Fedora 9, from an user > perspective my memories about it are sweet... it was worse with > Thunderbird 3, which was included in a release (F11) in Beta stage, and > not even a late beta, it was something like Beta2, but AFAIK Firefox is > expected to be RC around F14. > > And while Thunderbird 3 was included due to the slow development pace of > the upstream (we used to have a very old Tb 2), Firefox 4 comes with at > least a killer feature, WebM (IIRC, another killer feature is the new js > engine) ...which is already present in all currently maintained fedora releases via webkitgtk (midori, epiphany, kazehakase, ...). Now, that is a *real killer feature*... I'm not sure about the js engine but something tells me it's still slower than webkit's or chromium's or opera's... Sorry, I'm -1 for FF4 in F14. It's second beta now and scheduled release is around F14 release, which is too late (not counting in account that they'll most likely slip with their release...). Martin
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