Hi,
I read Support for Firefox 1.5.0.x ends on April 24, 2007.
Will: 1) fc6 offer ff2.0 then or 2)people go without security fixes until they upgrade to fc7 or 3) people just install ff2.0 from one of the ways you can find on the web
Shawn
javajunkie wrote:
I read Support for Firefox 1.5.0.x ends on April 24, 2007.
The Fedora Firefox maintainer begs to differ:
That's a silly terminology for it. It's not really End-of-life. There will be releases past that point, it's just that they won't be done in the traditional fashion: meaning, no generic binaries posted by mozilla.org. They will follow this strategy for 3.0 and at some future date will do it for 2.0.0.x. There will be releases off 1.5 that several people including myself have signed up to drive.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-January/msg01173.html
javajunkie continued:
Will:
- fc6 offer ff2.0 then
or 2)people go without security fixes until they upgrade to fc7 or 3) people just install ff2.0 from one of the ways you can find on the web
4) The Fedora (and RHEL) Firefox developer was in on that decision and is happy to keep supporting 1.5 (including security fixes), since he'd have to do it for RHEL anyway.
See also https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-January/msg01172.html
Hope this helps,
James.
On 2/27/07, javajunkie javajunkie@koyuru.com wrote:
Hi,
I read Support for Firefox 1.5.0.x ends on April 24, 2007.
Will:
- fc6 offer ff2.0 then
or 2)people go without security fixes until they upgrade to fc7 or 3) people just install ff2.0 from one of the ways you can find on the web
You can use firefox 2.0.0.1 youself from mozilla.org because FC6 would not release firefox 2.0 and just put it in testing for a long time....
Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon <at> gmail.com> writes:
You can use firefox 2.0.0.1 youself from mozilla.org because FC6 would not release firefox 2.0 and just put it in testing for a long time....
Or you can get it properly packaged at Rémi Collet's repository: http://remi.collet.free.fr
Using upstream tarballs bypasses the distribution's package management system (i.e. RPM for Fedora) and can make your system a mess, it should be done only as a last resort if no packages are available.
Kevin Kofler
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:13 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon <at> gmail.com> writes:
You can use firefox 2.0.0.1 youself from mozilla.org because FC6
would
not release firefox 2.0 and just put it in testing for a long
time....
Or you can get it properly packaged at Rémi Collet's repository: http://remi.collet.free.fr
Using upstream tarballs bypasses the distribution's package management system (i.e. RPM for Fedora) and can make your system a mess, it should be done only as a last resort if no packages are available.
Kevin Kofler
Is there repo for remi's software? I think there is but I can't find it. -- ======================================================================= Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -- H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On 3/3/07, Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:13 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon <at> gmail.com> writes:
You can use firefox 2.0.0.1 youself from mozilla.org because FC6
would
not release firefox 2.0 and just put it in testing for a long
time....
Or you can get it properly packaged at Rémi Collet's repository: http://remi.collet.free.fr
Using upstream tarballs bypasses the distribution's package management system (i.e. RPM for Fedora) and can make your system a mess, it should be done only as a last resort if no packages are available.
Kevin KoflerIs there repo for remi's software? I think there is but I can't find it.
Some one tell me it need to wait until FC 7 release and wait for Firefox 3 not 2 Or may be it still Firefox 2 in FC 7 and mozilla released Firefox 4 and the situation like now.
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:34:21PM +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
Some one tell me it need to wait until FC 7 release and wait for Firefox 3 not 2 Or may be it still Firefox 2 in FC 7 and mozilla released Firefox 4 and the situation like now.
Not likely: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html
Really, "Firefox 2.0" is more like "Firefox 1.6". They just decided they needed a more exciting version number. From an end-user point of view, there's little new except the spellchecker (and the crash-resume thing without needing to get a special extension to do it).
On 3/6/07, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
[...]
Really, "Firefox 2.0" is more like "Firefox 1.6". They just decided they needed a more exciting version number. From an end-user point of view, there's little new except the spellchecker (and the crash-resume thing without needing to get a special extension to do it).
This is slightly OT, but: is that "crash-resume thing" a complete replacement for the Session Saver extension? I.e., does it also save the history of all open tabs and work if FF doesn't crash but quit normally?
Andras
Today Andras Simon did spake thusly:
On 3/6/07, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
[...]
Really, "Firefox 2.0" is more like "Firefox 1.6". They just decided they needed a more exciting version number. From an end-user point of view, there's little new except the spellchecker (and the crash-resume thing without needing to get a special extension to do it).
This is slightly OT, but: is that "crash-resume thing" a complete replacement for the Session Saver extension? I.e., does it also save the history of all open tabs and work if FF doesn't crash but quit normally?
Yes, you can set it to open your last set of tabs on startup. and shift + ctrl + t will bring up the last tab you closed (if you accidentally close the wrong tab for example). Plus the JS stuff is better in 2, the UI is better, there's better support for internationalisation and it's generally a bit faster and nicer
On 3/6/07, Scott van Looy scott@ethosuk.org.uk wrote:
Today Andras Simon did spake thusly:
On 3/6/07, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
[...]
Really, "Firefox 2.0" is more like "Firefox 1.6". They just decided they needed a more exciting version number. From an end-user point of view, there's little new except the spellchecker (and the crash-resume thing without needing to get a special extension to do it).
This is slightly OT, but: is that "crash-resume thing" a complete replacement for the Session Saver extension? I.e., does it also save the history of all open tabs and work if FF doesn't crash but quit normally?
Yes, you can set it to open your last set of tabs on startup. and shift + ctrl + t will bring up the last tab you closed (if you accidentally close the wrong tab for example). Plus the JS stuff is better in 2, the UI is better, there's better support for internationalisation and it's generally a bit faster and nicer
Sounds good! Thanks,
Andras
Will firefox 1.5 unsupported starting from april? Whis is a bit too soon I think. Anyway, what will happen with fc5/fc6 that doesn't have support for firefox2? Will they be updated to ff2? I currently have firefox2 installed from the fc7 repository but this is not a solution for all the people running fc.
On 3/6/07, Andras Simon szajmi@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/6/07, Scott van Looy scott@ethosuk.org.uk wrote:
Today Andras Simon did spake thusly:
On 3/6/07, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
[...]
Really, "Firefox 2.0" is more like "Firefox 1.6". They just decided they needed a more exciting version number. From an end-user point of view, there's little new except the spellchecker (and the crash-resume thing without needing to get a special extension to do it).
This is slightly OT, but: is that "crash-resume thing" a complete replacement for the Session Saver extension? I.e., does it also save the history of all open tabs and work if FF doesn't crash but quit normally?
Yes, you can set it to open your last set of tabs on startup. and shift + ctrl + t will bring up the last tab you closed (if you accidentally close the wrong tab for example). Plus the JS stuff is better in 2, the UI is better, there's better support for internationalisation and it's generally a bit faster and nicer
Sounds good! Thanks,
Andras
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Florin Asavoaie wrote:
Will firefox 1.5 unsupported starting from april? Whis is a bit too soon I think. Anyway, what will happen with fc5/fc6 that doesn't have support for firefox2? Will they be updated to ff2? I currently have firefox2 installed from the fc7 repository but this is not a solution for all the people running fc.
I refer the honourable gentleman to the beginning of this very thread, where this question was posed and answered.
James.
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:20:24PM +0200, Florin Asavoaie wrote:
Will firefox 1.5 unsupported starting from april? Whis is a bit too soon I think. Anyway, what will happen with fc5/fc6 that doesn't have support for firefox2? Will they be updated to ff2? I currently have firefox2 installed from the fc7 repository but this is not a solution for all the people running fc.
Well, FC5 will be unsupported within shooting distance of that time, so it's not terribly relevant. But read back in this very thread for the answer to your question for FC6.
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:31 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:34:21PM +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
Some one tell me it need to wait until FC 7 release and wait for Firefox 3 not 2 Or may be it still Firefox 2 in FC 7 and mozilla released Firefox 4 and the situation like now.
Not likely: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html
Really, "Firefox 2.0" is more like "Firefox 1.6". They just decided they needed a more exciting version number. From an end-user point of view, there's little new except the spellchecker (and the crash-resume thing without needing to get a special extension to do it).
It was major for me to have that spell-checker active! I love it! Ric
Is there repo for remi's software? I think there is but I can't find it.
Install this: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch.rp... (This is a noarch package, so it's the same for i386 or x86_64.)
This configures yum automatically, however the repository is disabled by default. Use --enablerepo=remi to enable it by hand on the yum command line or enable it by default by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo (set enabled to 1).
If you use apt-rpm, add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (or create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d with this line): repomd http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms fc6.i386 or for x86_64: repomd http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms fc6.x86_64
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