On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since Mozilla switched to the new rapid release model, Firefox in Fedora > is no longer fun: Every 6 weeks a new major version hits our stable > release and breaks Firefox horribly: > * My favorite extensions (and actually the only thing that keeps > me using FF) stop working. In the last 7 weeks I had to pitch in > three times and update packages to get things working again. > Sometimes there is not even an update available upstream. Which extensions are you talking about? The ones I use never caused an such issues. > * Firefox falls back to English as there is no language pack > provided. I have to go go the FTP server and download and > install the XPI file manually. Something is broken on your system. rpm -qV firefox should tell you that. > So what can we do to improve the situation? > 1. Can we bring back the language packs as part of the packages? They are already there. > 2. Can the FF maintainers make sure that all maintainers of > extensions get notified of changes *before* release of a new > package? Which maintainers are you talking about? Packaged extensions or upstream extension maintainers? > 3. Can someone (I'm looking at you, QA) make sure all extensions > are still compatible? That's already one of the test cases but you can't expect people to test every extension in the world. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
