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Re: [Cooker] Re: [RPM] cooker main/release mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14-3mdv2009.0

tropikhajma

2008-06-05

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Dne Thursday 05 June 2008 17:12:39 Tiago Salem Herrmann napsal(a):
> 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.

hah, FF2.0 in 2008.1 is happily crashing on pages with flash, freezing on java
applets. All is known, in errata I believe. Don't try to scare anyone here.

hajma

> 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


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