Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon May 11 12:23:14 UTC 2009


On 05/11/2009 08:18 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> I would understand if Firefox and Thunderbird were in their release
>> candidate phase, and we could reasonably expect that within three months
>> that they would hit final release. Firefox has no definitive (or even
>> approximate) release date scheduled, and Thunderbird is only in its
>> second beta. There is little-to-no guarantee that either of these
>> products will be deemed stable before Fedora 12, and I think it is a
>> severe mistake to make them the default before then.
> 
> Firefox should be in RC phase by the time F11 is release and is
> basically in that phase now. The difference between beta 4 and RC will
> be minor bug fixes.
> 
> Peter
> 

That still does not address my concern about Thunderbird, which is still
well within the "Don't use this on any system you care about" phase of
its development...

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