Benjy Grogan wrote:
On 9/27/06, Christopher Aillon caillon@redhat.com wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
Firefox RC1 has just been released. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html
AFAIK, unless something comes up, FF 2.0 will be released early next
month.
Both rawhide and FC6 still include the older FF 1.5.07. Is there any plan to push FF 2.0 RC into rawhide, and after testing, into FC6?
There is no chance that this will happen, so it is rather pointless to plan to do so.
Okay, but why isn't Firefox ever put into rawhide when it's alphas and betas become available?
Can you, *without looking at the release notes*, provide compelling reasons to do so? You've probably looked at the Firefox 2.0 RC1 release notes by now so you might be able to spew some out, but the bottom line is: web browsing already works for people. It's not like you can't go to amazon and read slashdot without the upgrade.
It's as important as Gnome and Gaim
A web browser is important yes. But does it really matter which one? Seriously. As long as people can buy stuff off ebay and amazon, view porn, count how many myspace friends they have today, send webmail, look up music lyrics, or whatever it is people do on the web, that's all they really care about.
Besides, GNOME and gaim are applications designed and written for you the Linux user in mind (GNOME arguably is done with the Fedora user in mind), and we have sway with what goes in to that codebase. Firefox is written with the Windows user in mind and if you find bugs, I am not guaranteed to be able to fix them because I (on behalf of Fedora or Red Hat) can't make changes to the source code without getting approval from the Mozilla Corporation pursuant to their trademarking guidelines.
As it is now FC7 will have Firefox 2, but everyone will then be talking about including Firefox 3.
And I wonder what color shoes it will be wearing.