On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:40:20PM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > | IMO it was a bad move to put a beta browser into an LTS release..... But > | that's just my opinion ;-) > > I was surprised by this during the betas. I think that the only > explanation I found that made sense was that FF2 wouldn't be supported > by Mozilla for the lifetime of 8.04, thus it was better for Ubuntu to > punt with FF3 and rely on the upstream fixes from Debian or something. > > > > Perhaps so, I wonder what other long term support distros are using? It's a > shame the Firefox release cycle didn't synchronise with Ubuntus but then I > guess they couldn't have put the lid on Hardy until Firefox was ready... It's > out in June apparantly so not that long to wait! > > Chris >
I guess that 8.04.1 when it comes out in July will include FF3 final. It's a much smaller change from FF3b5 to final than from 2 to 3 for both users and developers, so that's probably the rationale. Then they won't have to support a beta version for Hardy's lifetime. Iain -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
