On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > There is also plugin compatibility . Newer != better -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
