On Jan 21, 8:48 am, Marcus Better <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John J Barton wrote: > >> Will there be any updates for firebug untill ubuntu patch this? :( > > > No, Firebug will not be making any changes. You can install a > > supported 32 bit Firefox for linux. I suggest you also complain to > > Ubuntu about their choice to ship the unsupported 64 bit firefox. > > John, as you probably know, shipping official Firefox binaries is not an > option for source-based Linux distros.
No I don't know this, but it also not relevant here. > So I would assume that most Linux > users end up using non-official binaries, whether 32-bit or 64-bit, built by > their distributions and not Mozilla. You write this as if 32-bit and 64 bit are some how equally valid choices. This is not correct. The 64 bit version is not supported by Mozilla. Ubuntu is shipping alpha releases as if they are products. That is my first complaint. > And usually they carry patches not > present in official Firefox builds, and they may build against slightly > different libraries etc. The most serious change made by at least some distros is to remove the crashreporter, a vital tool for diagnosing crashes and helping users. This makes our job harder. That is my second complaint. > > In short, most users on the Linux platform will use Firefox binaries other > than the ones provided by Mozilla. Now this time around we had a bug > affecting 64-bit builds, next time it can be a Ubuntu-specific bug in the > 32-bit version. You could dismiss that too as an unsupported build, but the > fact is that this is what people are using. The actual case and the hypothetical case are not similar. The 32-bit build on linux is supported by Mozilla. Triage would point to Ubuntu as the problem: they support it, fine. The 64 bit build on linux is no supported. Triage leads "well maybe a user will offer a patch". > > As for those who complain about the crashes: the situation is pretty simple, > there was a bug in Firefox, it was fixed, and complaining here doesn't help. > Wait until your distro ships Firefox 3.6, or backports the fix like Debian > did, or use some other working binary. Here we absolutely agree! jjb > > Cheers, > > Marcus > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAktYhU0ACgkQXjXn6TzcAQm+KgCgmcXJjWwBPKyKwAVhVAo/L2UY > 3EcAoN1eRDIezTHQcCr63BBiiVM4lLdt > =qPKb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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