Idea #6354: Hardy Heron must me released in June 2008 because of Firefox 3.0

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Written by JoeLeKiffeur the 3 Apr 08 at 20:35. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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(Sorry for my bad English)

I know, it's a very important decision, but if Ubuntu will support Firefox 3.0, the Mozilla's browser must be STABLE.
Firefox 3.0 is planned to be released in June, that's why I ask to report the version of the new LTS release.

Please consider this idea seriously.

Thank you.

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dragoninsane wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 21:05

hey firefox is not gnome ok...too bad

neon wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 21:08

Firefox 3b5 will probly be default in the release. After b5 the only thing scheduled is polish.

tomaszx wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 21:32

bad idea - and please STOP like this idiots ideas!
and so? what is a problem with FF beta ? alwayes you can install updates on June.

eh... peoples. STOP!

thagoat wrote on the 4 Apr 08 at 04:29

Before the last release (7.04) Mark Shuttleworth put an open call out to developers to have their packages ready for release every 6 months to coincide with Ubuntu releases. Thus ensuring Ubuntu users would have the latest packages and features.
A brilliant idea, but only adhered to by some.
Developers make packages for the OS, so why would Canonical delay the release of its next major upgrade to coincide with an application? That is the complete opposite of what Mark asked said developers to do.
To delay the release for one developer would only cause problems and bring about demands from other developers to delay future releases and we would not have access to an updated distro every 6 months. Which is a totally forward-thinking way to make sure that we DO in fact have the most recent and up-to-date packages and features.

gaspard.leon wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 00:11

I think b5 is pretty damn stable, but it would be nice if it wasn't "frozen" in to 8.04LTS... although it probably will be... would be nice if the package will be upgraded when 3.0 is released...

oh well I usually install it by hand anyway since the repo version is usually old.

eld1e6o wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 09:07

I am very impatient to use ubuntu final but it is a good idea although it would be breaking much with the schedule and would fall heavily criticized by irresponsibility on ubuntu

I am very impatient but it is a good idea although it would be breaking much with the schedule and would fall heavily criticized by irresponsibility on ubuntu
Same is a good point, a final version can't have betas
+1
Greetings

klerud wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 18:08

I'd say it's simpler to just leave FF2 as the default browser until 8.10...

gmatht wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 15:15

> I'd say it's simpler to just leave FF2 as the default browser until 8.10...

However mozilla won't be supporting FF2 for much longer and 8.04 is a LTS release. Ubuntu probably doesn't want to support a unsupported FF version for the next 5 years.

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