On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:03, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
I've been preparing Firefox 4 since quite some time in mozilla:beta (and previously :alpha) and I run it everywhere meanwhile. The initial Firefox roadmap said it would have been ready by october this year but was slipped to something "early 2011" https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4/Beta which would still fit into the openSUSE 11.4 release.
There are still some issues and quite some not updated extensions but to get proper testing I think it makes sense to go for Firefox 4 in Factory soon. My plan is to do the update before Milestone 5 (actually right after milestone 4 to get a feeling before M5 gets done).
I do _not_ plan to have an easy fallback to Firefox 3.x in Factory but it will be available in the mozilla repository as always. The reasons are: 1. it's extra work to have a package available for parallel installation 2. the much more important one: There is always a risk for user profiles when doing major downgrades.
Please tell me if there are strong arguments not to do it this way.
I've been using the mozilla:beta builds for a while now, and generally they work well. Not having a path back to 3.6 or not being able to do a parallel install... I don't see it as a problem. It's a MUCH faster browser than the 3.6 generation - it does have issues though, especially on flash video (really weird stuff happens for me with FF4 and some, but not all, Flash content). So from my side.. for what little it counts... a +100 to getting FF4 into Factory as soon as possible, and prepare it for oS11.4. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org