Contributor derick.eisenhardt

The various Java plugins (particularly sun-java5 & 6) do not work in Firefox3 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy). There has been a bug report open about this since 2007-Dec-04, but it's still not resolved. The bug is currently marked as low-urgency/undecided. Java is a must for many users as there are still a number of websites which require it. Vote this up if you feel it's important.

One month is simply not long enough for the beta phase of Ubuntu's development cycle. With each new release Ubuntu seems to be accumulating more and more bugs. Even worse are the tons of regressions slipping through until after the final release, sometimes not getting fixed at all. More focus needs to be put on testing and stability (including universe/multiverse too).

Most users are terrified at the idea of running an alpha, so almost no one but developers and hardcore/bleeding-edge types are doing any real testing 5 out of the 6 months that each release is developed. I'd love to see 3 months of development (alpha) followed by 3 months of testing (beta+rc), but that's probably not realistic. So I propose 1 month of beta, followed by 1 month of release candidates; thus giving us 2 months of testing rather than one. The devs and other folks in charge can make the real decision of exactly how long, but 1 month (3 weeks of beta + 1 week rc) just isn't cutting it guys.