Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?

[Christopher Aillon]

Benjy Grogan wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > Firefox RC1 has just been released.
>> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html
>> >
>> > AFAIK, unless something comes up, FF 2.0 will be released early next 
>> month.
>> > Both rawhide and FC6 still include the older FF 1.5.07.
>> > Is there any plan to push FF 2.0 RC into rawhide, and after testing,
>> > into FC6?
>>
>>
>> There is no chance that this will happen, so it is rather pointless to
>> plan to do so.
> 
> Okay, but why isn't Firefox ever put into rawhide when it's alphas and
> betas become available?

Can you, *without looking at the release notes*, provide compelling 
reasons to do so?  You've probably looked at the Firefox 2.0 RC1 release 
notes by now so you might be able to spew some out, but the bottom line 
is: web browsing already works for people.  It's not like you can't go 
to amazon and read slashdot without the upgrade.

> It's as important as Gnome and Gaim

A web browser is important yes.  But does it really matter which one? 
Seriously.  As long as people can buy stuff off ebay and amazon, view 
porn, count how many myspace friends they have today, send webmail, look 
up music lyrics, or whatever it is people do on the web, that's all they 
really care about.

Besides, GNOME and gaim are applications designed and written for you 
the Linux user in mind (GNOME arguably is done with the Fedora user in 
mind), and we have sway with what goes in to that codebase.  Firefox is 
written with the Windows user in mind and if you find bugs, I am not 
guaranteed to be able to fix them because I (on behalf of Fedora or Red 
Hat) can't make changes to the source code without getting approval from 
the Mozilla Corporation pursuant to their trademarking guidelines.


> As it is now FC7 will
> have Firefox 2, but everyone will then be talking about including
> Firefox 3.

And I wonder what color shoes it will be wearing.