On 15 June 2011 13:35, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 June 2011 14:32, Frank Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 06/14/2011 08:22 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: >>> >>> Upgrading stable firefox to firefox5rc and importing firefox-{beta,aurora} >>> are two distinct orthogonal things IMHO. >>> >>> since firefox5 is near being released, I think we should update >>> main xulrunner+firefox to 5 anyway >>> >> Whatever we do, please don't put it in Core to replace FF4 until the add-ons >> have been updated. It was really annoying to lose the Tor add-on for months >> because the beta FF4 just showed up and replaced FF3, and the Tor add-on >> wasn't updated until the release or just before. >> > > As I said, we have to have the Beta versions, so as to work out the > niggles to be ready to push the stable version to stable releases > (Mageia 1). > > You can always workaround the compatibility, either: > - Adding it manually http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility > OR > - Using this extension > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/ > > in my experience, 90% of the time the addon will work with a new > version of FF (but then again I use a limited number of addons). > > -- > Ahmad Samir >
I'm with Ahmad, going for beta for testing seems right. The beta release stage should be long enough for issues to be sorted so aurora isn't needed.
