Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

[Brandon Lozza]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Martin Sourada
<martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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There is also plugin compatibility . Newer != better