Idea
#8808: Update Firefox 3 beta 5 to RC1
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This idea was marked as implemented the 17 June 08.
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Done!
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Written by MarcoSilva the 19 May 08 at 10:38.
Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: Implemented
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Description
There is a logic for this in my opinion:
1 - Improve usability, stability and speed for Firefox users in Ubuntu. Beta 5 has some big issues.
2 - This also would help the Mozilla dev team because there would be thousand of users using RC1 instead of Beta5.
3 - The "Beta" can confuse some users.
So, what do you think?
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Developer comments
FF3 final can now be downloaded via the update manager.
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XVIIarcano wrote on the 19 May 08 at 12:33
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I think that the passage is quite obvious and I would be puzzled by the opposite.
+1 anyway, just in case... ;)
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lambdoid wrote on the 19 May 08 at 12:35
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Great idea. I've had major issues with b5 - crashing constantly, freezes and poor performance on Flash sites.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 19 May 08 at 13:13
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lambdoid,
That is the Adobe Flash plugin that is buggy.
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unrealfighter wrote on the 19 May 08 at 14:08
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I've just posted this idea yesterday. Bother to check for duplicates before going click-happy.
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Auzy wrote on the 19 May 08 at 14:43
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I KNEW I had seen this, but I couldn't find it unrealfigher (maybe change ur description to include RC1 in there, or firefox3 instead of firefox, to make it easier to search).
Thats why I haven't commented this yet..
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MarcoSilva wrote on the 19 May 08 at 15:16
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unrealfighter i did search for it, didnt find the ideia sorry
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nami wrote on the 19 May 08 at 16:24
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yes definitely, this RC cannot be as bad as the current beta which is awful!
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scherer13 wrote on the 19 May 08 at 19:12
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I don't understand why when you used firefox b5 in windows you can just go to Help->Check for Updates, but in Ubuntu you have to wait for them to send up the updates in the repos. Why can't it just be straight from mozilla?
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bochecha wrote on the 19 May 08 at 21:28
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OMG!!!
Will there be an idea in Brainstorm every time a program included in Ubuntu gets a new release upstream ?
Do you think that the Ubuntu devs are waiting for you to say "hey, program X has a new update. Come on you lazy packagers, just update it in Ubuntu!" ???
You get a -1 for this.
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MarcoSilva wrote on the 19 May 08 at 22:08
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bochecha that is not the issue where.
The think is I read that the maintainers were going to wait for the final release of FF3. That is why I created this.
I know how the package and repositories system works in Ubuntu...
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white_noise wrote on the 21 May 08 at 14:18
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In development, hooray!
+1
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6205 wrote on the 23 May 08 at 13:07
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Where is the problem? Simply download linux Firefox from Mozilla and replace files across your system...
Do you thing that Ubuntu is using some special, magic version of Firefox, compiled in full moon on holy PC desktops? :))
I don't thing that they had changed something in source code, so there is no need to wait for developers, developers, developers :)
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wladston wrote on the 23 May 08 at 21:15
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can't wait to have a usable computer ....
every time, I have to reboot my system because firefox - or better, freezefox, will make it freeze at some point!
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wladston wrote on the 24 May 08 at 17:34
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bochecha,
that's bad .... hardy was the one ubuntu release with I had the largest and most terrible types of regressions ... :(
Hopefully they will fix that on firefox 3 ... I can't wait to try out freezefox rc1, thought ... some people reported to have a better cpu/system load using it ...
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gsiliceo wrote on the 25 May 08 at 00:03
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I hope they implement the patch for the freezing problem before updating the repositories.
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futwick wrote on the 25 May 08 at 22:56
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Is there an ETA for this?
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DShepherd wrote on the 26 May 08 at 04:04
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Can we stop creating an 'idea' everytime there's a new version of some software. Its not very useful.
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m_gol wrote on the 27 May 08 at 04:56
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@ DShepherd:
I agree, but RC1 was shipped on May 16 and now we have May 27 and it still isn't here. So this idea is fully justified. I only hope that final new versions of Fx3 will find their way to repos a lot faster...
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Auzy wrote on the 27 May 08 at 09:59
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Bochecha, as written on a major digg re-post, stop hyping up bugs that are in a RC.
Mozilla already said, they are working on fixing it.
In the future, please refrain from posting bug reports which you heard from some noob in digg..
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peetie wrote on the 27 May 08 at 15:29
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Upstream version of major applications will not, and should not, be updated outside of releases (8.04.[1-9] or 8.10).
Every upstream application puts out new releases from time to time which fix and cause new bugs. The most important fixes are generally cherry picked by released distro version from those applications to fix major issues, but without major testing new upstream versions are not (and should not) be added to a released distro version.
However, you can add hardy-proposed and hardy-backports to get some of the upcoming (incompletely tested) updates, or you can track 8.10 if you must always have the latest versions all of the time, or you can track 8.04.x if you want all of the untested versions of packages targeted for the next point release.
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clickwir wrote on the 29 May 08 at 03:38
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"This is planned, but currently most of the Ubuntu-mozilla team is at the Ubuntu Developer Summit so please be patient."
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid/
ok... "When: Monday 19th May to Friday 23rd May 2008"
Today is the 28th. I'm sorry, I seem like an ass here. What can we do to help?
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anabelle wrote on the 29 May 08 at 21:42
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Is this really that difficult?
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anabelle wrote on the 31 May 08 at 00:27
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FINALLY!!! ITS UPDATING RIGHT NOW! :D
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m_gol wrote on the 31 May 08 at 04:23
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@ anabelle:
I don't see it in repo... You mean hardy-updates or hardy-proposed?
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m_gol wrote on the 31 May 08 at 18:32
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Great. RC2 is coming in a few days and there is still no RC1 in repo...
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DShepherd wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 05:07
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please mark this as implremented.
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