Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

[Brandon Lozza]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 07/28/2010 05:47 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  On 07/28/2010 04:22 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote
>>>> The FSF drafted up the four freedoms and it's not offtopic, we're
>>>> discussing Firefox4 and the fact that we won't be able to make changes
>>>> to it to fix it without their permission.
>>> There is no specific non-upstream change that Firefox maintainers in
>>> Fedora want to do and hence it is irrelevant to this thread which is
>>> merely about integration of Firefox in Fedora 14 which requires no
>>> patches.
>> Wrong, users of the KDE spin would LOVE to have OpenSUSE's patches to
>> integrate it _better_ with KDE.
>
> What does that have to do with this thread?  As long as the patches are
> not upstream,  Firefox in Fedora won't have it.  Period.
>
> Rahul
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It does have to do with the thread; stop saying it doesn't.

The point is, if we rely on upstream to fix the software then we
SHOULD NOT ship BETA. There are technical (security, stability)
reasons for this.