Re: browser races

2011-08-20 Thread Nigel Barker
On 22 June 2011 15:53, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > Are you aware of: > >    http://mozilla.debian.net/> > > Perhaps it's possible to use that archive in your case. Let us know it > it is a good (or at least working) solution. > No I wasn't, and it is really useful for squeeze (not lenny though).

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 24. Juni 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > there is only 3.6 and there is nothing for sid at all. So having the > latest Firefox backported somehow is nice, hiding it at some other place > than backports.debian.org is questionable but there might be reasons for > this I can not see. yes,

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:10:37PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > if you look at http://mozilla.debian.net/ pick "testing (Wheezy)", > "Iceweasel" and "5.0" you'll be told exactly what to do. Perhaps I need to try at home. The page (viewed with IceWeasel 3.5) behind a sometimes bori

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-06-24 at 03:02pm, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:21:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > ...and 7(!) comments to that post, all made within one day, > > These were written after I looked there and wrote my mail. ...uhm, and Andreas Mundt provided same info before

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-06-24 at 03:02pm, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:21:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > ...and 7(!) comments to that post, all made within one day, > > These were written after I looked there and wrote my mail. Ah, point taken. I didn't realized it was all this

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 24. Juni 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Seems very much like light at the end of the tunnel to me. to spell it out here: mozilla.debian.net is where you find iceweasel5 packages for squeeze. cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Tille [110624 15:02]: > Well, not really. I was asking for testing/unstable. If you > look at [..] if you look at http://mozilla.debian.net/ pick "testing (Wheezy)", "Iceweasel" and "5.0" you'll be told exactly what to do. Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:21:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > ...and 7(!) comments to that post, all made within one day, These were written after I looked there and wrote my mail. > points to > the alternative approach of using backported packages for stable, and > experimental packag

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-06-24 at 10:35am, Andreas Tille wrote: > The link posted here[1] gives advise how to get a local installation > to /opt - this does NOT sound like light at the end of the tunnel but > rather like we have no clue whether we get some recent Firefox version > to unstable in a foreseeable futu

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:56:01AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > I'd advise you to actually search throught the list archives (including > debian-release) before, and you'll notice, that the topic has been > covered already, and well discussed. Thanks for the hint. I do not see any

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Tille [110624 08:38]: > > I'd use stable backports (see backports.debian.org) or until ff5 is > > available > > there you can follow this: > > http://blog.steve.org.uk/so_you_want_to_install_the_most_recent_firefox_.html [..] > Am I to impatient or should we bring up this topic

Re: browser races

2011-06-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 24. Juni 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > Certainly not the right list to ask about this but I really wonder: Am I > the only person who is concerned about lagging three major Firefox > versions behind even in unstable? We have not seen 3.6, 4.0 and who > knows when we will see 5.0 in expe

Re: browser races

2011-06-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 08:31:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I'd use stable backports (see backports.debian.org) or until ff5 is available > there you can follow this: > http://blog.steve.org.uk/so_you_want_to_install_the_most_recent_firefox_.html Certainly not the right list to ask about

Re: browser races

2011-06-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Nigel, On Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011, Nigel Barker wrote: > So it seems that browsers are expected to be updated every few months > nowadays! It might not be possible to even complete a school year with > one version and still have everyone's apps/mail/ who knows what > working. How would you mana

Re: browser races

2011-06-21 Thread Andreas B. Mundt
Dear Nigel, On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:39:20AM +0900, Nigel Barker wrote: > > I have some concerns about browsers that might affect other schools, > [...] > So it seems that browsers are expected to be updated every few months > nowadays! It might not be possible to even complete a school year

browser races

2011-06-21 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, Thanks for all the hard work you are putting in lately. I have some concerns about browsers that might affect other schools, A few days ago hotmail stopped working with iceweasel (skolelinux lenny - 3.0.6 I think it is) again. This time it can't be fixed by user-agent-string tweaks. A