On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:57 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 07/28/2010 01:08 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> On 07/27/2010 10:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>
>>> Are we skipping Firefox 4 for Fedora 14? Beta 2 has been released
>>> recently and I am wondering if we can go with it if it fits into the
>>> schedule. There are dozens of new features including WebM support that
>>> would be nice to have.
>
> -1 didn't the last time we started using a pre-release from Mozilla turn
> out pretty bad for us?
That was Firefox 3.0 included as RC in Fedora 9, from an user
perspective my memories about it are sweet... it was worse with
Thunderbird 3, which was included in a release (F11) in Beta stage, and
not even a late beta, it was something like Beta2, but AFAIK Firefox is
expected to be RC around F14.
And while Thunderbird 3 was included due to the slow development pace of
the upstream (we used to have a very old Tb 2), Firefox 4 comes with at
least a killer feature, WebM (IIRC, another killer feature is the new js
engine)
...which is already present in all currently maintained fedora releases
via webkitgtk (midori, epiphany, kazehakase, ...). Now, that is a *real
killer feature*... I'm not sure about the js engine but something tells
me it's still slower than webkit's or chromium's or opera's...
Sorry, I'm -1 for FF4 in F14. It's second beta now and scheduled release
is around F14 release, which is too late (not counting in account that
they'll most likely slip with their release...).
Martin