Firefox channels (Nightly, Aurora and Beta) in F16

[Christopher Aillon]

On 07/11/2011 04:07 PM, Maciej Małecki wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> As it is my first mail to this list, let me briefly introduce myself:
> I am Maciej Małecki, software developer based in Poznań, Poland. I've
> been using Fedora since F11 (and I love it).
>
> The point is: is there a chance to have Mozilla Aurora, Beta and
> Nightly in F16 repositories? I think it would make life easier for
> quite many people. Now installation process is to download .tar.gz
> from Mozilla, unpack to /usr/lib64/firefox-7 (for Aurora) and create a
> .desktop file in /usr/share/applications.
>
> Mozilla guys discussed it here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600317, however most of
> the links are outdated/404.

I know there are a few third party repos already set up for this, but 
honestly, I very strongly recommend that people would just get their 
pre-release builds directly from Mozilla in exactly the way you 
describe.  As we're talking about pre-release software, it would be most 
beneficial for both Fedora and Mozilla if you participated in the 
pre-release process using the official nightlies and reporting bugs you 
encounter to Mozilla.