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Dnia 2008-06-05, o godz. 11:12:39
Tiago Salem Herrmann <salem@(protected)):
> Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
> > Dnia 2008-06-05, o godz. 00:31:32
> > Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@(protected)):
> >
> >
> >> Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dnia 2008-06-04, o godz. 23:21:40
> >>> Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust@(protected)):
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Le Wednesday 04 June 2008 22:51:05 Tiago Salem, vous avez écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>>> Name : mozilla-firefox Relocations: (not
> >>>>> relocatable) Version : 2.0.0.14
> >>>>> Vendor: Mandriva
> >>>>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is it planned to switch soon to firefox 3 on release/ ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Nicolas
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Good question ?
> >>>
> >>> I've spent some time on ff3 and it looks like it is working nice
> >>> here.
> >>>
> >>> Ofcourse there are few questions, like branding and does ff3 need
> >>> to work under corporate-server(or something like that).
> >>>
> >> From a marketing perspective, if FF3 is gold with any reasonable
> >> time margin before 2009.0 then I think it would be a point for some
> >> negative reviews if we do not ship it. Without following the dev
> >> too closely, I think it probably will be out in time.
> >>
> >> Col
> >>
> >>
> >
> > From marketing perspective everything what is new and shiny is very
> > desireable. From software point of view this is quite different like
> > new versions of applications brings new bugs, in most cases not
> > discovered and also old bugs ;)
> >
> >
> > BTW: i've pushed new rc2 on bs. Probably it will fail due some
> > patches incompatabilities.
> >
> >
> Yes, unfortunately the software point of view is different. IIRC
> firefox 3 is still hanging with soundwrapper and there are annoying
> lines on text boxes when using Ia-Ora theme.
> We use the same spec file for all the distros, even CS3. That's why
> I'm not sure if changing to ff3 is an easy task to do. But I agree
> that we should think about how to change to ff3 as soon as we get all
> the known major bugs resolved.
> Negative reviews are really bad for us, but I believe that shipping a
> non working browser is even worse. :)
>
> Salem
>
>
Well ff3 is about to be released this month, so there is lot of time to
hunt down major bugs and to prepare a switch, don't you think ?
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Regards,
TPG - MandrivaLinux's contributor
www.mandriva.com
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