Firefox 5.0

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:52 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:40 +0200, Sascha wrote:
> > On 06/21/2011 09:00 PM, agraham wrote:
> > > On 06/21/2011 07:52 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> > >> <SATIRE>
> > >>
> > >> Trying to get in the first "What's wrong with Fedora?  It's been 15
> > >> minutes since the Mozilla announcement and Firefox 5 isn't in the repos"
> > >> comment.
> > >>
> > >> </SATIRE>
> > >>
> > >
> > > It's there now, sorry for the delay.
> > >
> > 
> > Well, I would like to know, if Firefox 5 will generally come into the 
> > Fedora 15 repos. I searched the devel-ML for this topic the last days, I 
> > found out that Spot has a fedorapeople-Firefox5-Repo (He had a 
> > Firefox4-Beta-Repo back in F14 (Or was it 13?) times, too) but nothing 
> > about Fedora 15 and Firefox 5. I mean, ok, the version number looks 
> > huge, but actually, this is only a minor release and all distributions 
> > that ship current Firefox should notice that and therefore upgrade their 
> > Firefox package.
> > 
> > bodhi-Output:
> > 
> > bodhi -L firefox
> >    dist-f13-updates-testing  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13
> >            dist-f13-updates  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13
> > dist-f13-updates-candidate  firefox-3.6.18-1.fc13
> >            dist-f14-updates  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14
> > dist-f14-updates-candidate  firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14
> >    dist-f14-updates-testing  firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14
> >            dist-f15-updates  firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15
> >    dist-f15-updates-testing  firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15
> > dist-f15-updates-candidate  firefox-4.0-3.fc15
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> This is an excellent question, and it will partly depend on whether
> Mozilla's upstream plans for maintaining older versions. One of the
> advantages to their schedule for major releases was that we could
> reasonably assume that they'd be supporting a major release for the full
> 13-month lifecycle of a Fedora release. I can't find at a quick search
> right now any statements on how long they plan to support Firefox 3.6,
> 4.x or 5.x.
> 
> I find it hard to believe that upstream will want to support releases on
> their new schedule for thirteen months. Their current plan is to release
> version 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 all within 2011. It would be a support
> nightmare on their part to continue support beyond security fixes for
> more than two or three releases continuously, which pretty much implies
> that at some point Fedora will need to update mid-life in order to
> retain support.


It appears that Mozilla upstream is going to force our hand here.
Apparently, Mozilla declared Firefox 4 EOL alongside the release of
Firefox 5 [1].

This is going to cause a lot of pain, especially with regards to
extensions.

[1]
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support
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