Firefox 4 for f14?

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and
> > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14
> > will ever get the latest firefox 4.0?
> > 
> > Recompilation of the packages from f15 is not such a good option.
> > 
> > --jason
> 
> While we are known for latest and greatest, I'm not 100% sure the jump
> from Firefox 3.x to Firefox 4.x is within the most recent Updates 
> Policy[0] because of the drastic changes between the two releases and
> the amount of user visible change that would result. I am also not the 
> maintainer of Firefox so can't really speak to this in any form of 
> authority but wanted to reply mainly for this next tid bit .... with 
> many thanks to Spot, there is currently a fully functional Firefox 4 
> repository for Fedora 14, more information and instructions here: 

There are packages in the critical path which depend on xulrunner.
Firefox 4's xulrunner is neither ABI nor API compatible with earlier
versions.  I can't help but think that such an update would be unwise.

Nathaniel