[Bug 211807] Review Request: firefox2 - Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser for FC6

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Summary: Review Request: firefox2 - Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser for FC6


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211807





------- Additional Comments From caillon at redhat.com  2007-01-02 14:56 EST -------
I've already pointed out in various posts why this is not a good idea.  Axel
points out more.  Additionally, the Firefox 2 package in rawhide currently
regresses a lot with respect to i18n text rendering in the FC6 1.5 package. 
Many fixes have been going into the 1.5 branch from various distros, so making
sure that 2.0.x has all those fixes is imperative.

Honestly, I'm sorry that there are a few extension authors that couldn't be
bothered supporting 1.5.  I'm also sorry that XULrunner is still not released
yet because this would be less of an issue then.  But I'm mostly sorry that our
desktop stack relies on gecko at all.  Because Firefox 2.0 would be in FC6
already and everyone could find some other package to complain about.

After my last public objections, some of you may have noticed that I got
agreement from the Mozilla Corp. to better support Linux distributions.  This
changed the landscape some and may potentially help get 2.0.x into earlier
Fedora releases or preferably get some 2.0.x features backported, but I can't
guarantee either will happen just yet.  I'm still working on things upstream as
I can.

So, once again, I will respectfully object to this package.  If this is going to
happen, it will be part of the core firefox package, not as a separate
parallel-installed package.  Should things change, news will be posted.

In the meantime, http://xkcd.com/c198.html


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