Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

David dgboles at comcast.net
Mon May 11 12:36:43 UTC 2009


On 5/11/2009 8:23 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 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...


Thunderbird is at beta 2. I have used it since beta 1 with no problems.


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  David




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