3.0 is not beta. 2.0 is legacy. You have a while to use 2.0, but mainly because of Sun's support and not Mozilla's. I personally advantage from the SQLite backend for the keychain and bookmarks since I maintain a lot of this data. 3.1 was expected to be released properly around the time of the next OpenSolaris release, and Sun engineers felt it would benefit quality and speed up maturity before customers must suffer with it. Solaris 10 is decreiptude, hard to manage, slow, and unworkable in a lot of cases by today's standards.
- James On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM, JV <jv711 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > James, > > from my years of storage and tape supporting fabric SANs; > from OEM to vendor-specific > to chipset > to hba > to driver > to OS > to patches > > I have learned in brilliant painful demonstration, that the latest is not > always the greatest. That is hardest thing to teach to journeyman level > Windows and Linux admins. > > BTW firefox 2.0.0.14 still ships with the production Solaris 10. Some beta > crap is just exactly that - beta crap. > > YMMV > SV > > --- On Sun, 4/19/09, James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Issues getting past "Untrusted Connection" > > To: "SV" <JV711 at yahoo.com>, desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 10:57 AM > > On 4/19/2009 12:40 PM, SV wrote: > > > Firefox ver 2.0.0.20 FTW > > Unfortunately many advancements in accessibility and > > performance have > > been made with 3.x. It would had been wise to stick with > > the current > > stable train instead of adopting 3.1 series, but they did. > > There is > > absolutely nothing wrong with 3.0, and I find 2.0 to be > > sluggish by > > comparison, more insecure, and less adaptive for a still > > evolving internet. > > > > People that cling onto old things because they are stubborn > > or lack > > technical insight will bury themselves and we will not be > > held > > responsible. If you have a specific reason for sticking > > with it, such > > as business applications, I could understand to a degree, > > but only while > > ignoring facts of compatibility. The only plugin I can > > think of which > > doesn't apply to the OpenSolaris case which was written > > for 2.x and is > > proprietary is VMware Server 2.0, else anything slightly > > less obscure > > will just work or can be made to work with minimal effort. > > > > - James > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090419/dd165080/attachment.html>
