On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
with 11.4 deadline arriving fast (rc1 checkin date is february 4th) I want to give a small notice about the status of Firefox (and other mozilla apps).
Here is the latest short term schedule from Mozilla for Firefox 4: http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2011/01/25/updated-firefox-4-beta-plan/
That means that we would end up having Firefox 4 beta 11 for the GA version of 11.4. This is probably the last beta before they are starting to do RCs.
I want to raise the question if we would like to do that or reverting back to Firefox 3.6.13? My favourite would be the former but it basically has disadvantages: - not all addons will be compatible by then - people who cannot do updates for whatever reason will stay with beta
I would prefer Firefox 4.0 over 3.x. 4.0 is a lot better in many ways than the 3.x series (speed for example). While you're right not all addons will be 100% available for 4.0B11, the vast majority already are - at least the mainstream ones. There will always be someone using a lesser known addon that will not work in the most current version of Firefox, and they will yell about it not working, but... they can step back to 3.x. I think it's better that 1 or 2 people step back to a previous release than the rest of the users have to find a way to update to the 4.x versions. That's my proverbial 2 cents. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org