Fedora 14 and firefox, not forgetting to appreciate the developers

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On 07/16/2010 08:20 AM, Andy Blanchard wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 08:12, Eric Tanguy <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
>> I read somewhere that firefox 4 would be out in november. Fedora 14 will
>> be released at the end of october. So will fedora 14 include firefox 4 ?
> 
> This came up when Firefox 3.6 came out the question got asked about it
> replacing Firefox 3.5.x in the then current Fedora releases.  The
> answer then, as when this situation has arisen previously, was "no".
> 
> In this case however, especially given the massive improvements that
> are expected in Firefox 4.0, I would hope that they might work around
> that by either including the latest beta in the release or by provide
> it as an optional, alternate package to the Firefox 3.6.x releases.
> 
> If push comes to shove though you can always grab one of the third
> party releases from external packagers, or build it yourself if you're
> up to it.  I'm running 4.0B1 at the moment and it's steady as a rock
> so far and haven't had any problems with the plugins I use either, so
> my vote would go for putting the latest beta into the release and
> update it to the official release when it leaves beta.
> 

Sounds good, but I'll wait for the official release.

Hats off to the hard wok put in by all those developers.

cpp4ever