2006/5/2, Wolfgang Rosenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Johan, On 2006-05-02 at 00:15:35 +0200, Johan N. wrote (shortened): > I'd like to know who controls the version-numbering of mozilla Firefox > inside SuSE as it's not quite compatible with what some banks demand despite > the fact that there was an update via YOU lately :) I'm the packager. And I guess you are asking why we "only" ship Firefox 1.0.x with older distributions?
Morning YES when we speak of what is available via the installationmedia/YOU I know that suse isn't known to introduce new versions of applications for the distributions out there officially suse 10 and down. Until 10.1 is on the street I'd still consider 10.0 "recent/current". One area where you should consider this is for browsers and especially for Mozilla Firefox as it's one of the most used in the linux/suse world :)
I hope I can encourage whoever it is to follow the "official" Mozilla > Firefox version-numbering because thats where others look. Novell/SuSE is > not big enough to dictate that yet ;) Product and project management decides about version upgrades. (And in some cases maybe the security team if there are no other options) > Luckily you had a more reasonable version 1 and half months ago in the > supplementary section of the ftp site but not the smartest way to have > things done and for some to be able to do some online banking ;) What is the problem? You say it's not possible to do online banking with Firefox 1.0.x?
YES, at least my bank checked against you current versionnumber of Mozilla Firefox and I was told to upgrade (kind of fun as I just pulled it down via YOU seconds before on another PC) ;-)
A browser like Mozilla Firefox should be kept much more "current" than in > the past. Frankly, Firefox is one of the few packages which got version upgrades at all in the past.
Yes at a very slow pace I may add if we don't consider the supplemental area of the ftp site ;-)
From a: lets get more people using linux/suse it would make a lot of sense
increasing the time you have for the purpose of caring for Firefox and keeping it fresh and usable everywhere OK except those sites that have "Made for Micky Mouse" printed all over them ;-) Yours Johan Wolfgang Rosenauer
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