On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 22:50 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/7/29 Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]>: > > > > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 20:42 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Robert G. (Doc) > >> Savage<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > What's the status of Firefox v3.5 for RHEL5? Will it be distributed, or > >> > do we have to wait for RHEL6 to get it? > >> > > >> > >> No idea Man of Bronze. My guess would be that if it is included in > >> RHEL-5 it will be after they have gotten through the usual first 3 > >> months of security fix of the day. > > > > The RHEL 5.4 Beta includes Firefox v3.0.11. Surely including v3.5.x *in > > addition to v3.0.x* in RHEL5 would not break anyone's configuration, and > > would give subscribers access to the most standards-compliant browser > > (ACID3=93) available. > > 1) I don't believe Firefox is the most standards compliant browser - I > use it and it's my favourite, but I recognise that Opera was first: > http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/acid3-opera-100 > > 2) There's no technical reason why Red Hat can't push Firefox 3.5 as a > Tech Preview, but please remember that the RHEL5.4 beta was probably > cut months before Firefox 3.5 was released and expecting RH to work it > through Release Engineering in the typically 3 month beta cycle is > probably pushing it given the amount of testing they'd have to do. > Maybe you should ask for it for RHEL 5.5!
I'll concede that Opera may have been first to reach 100, but no Red Hat distribution has ever included that browser. Indeed, the last time I checked Opera was still closed source. The jump in ACID3 conformance from 71 to 93, together with its faster Javascript engine, makes Firefox 3.5 a very desirable upgrade. Moving on to the "when" issue, the actual release dates were: Firefox 3.0.11 June 11 (security release) Firefox 3.5 June 30 (new release) Firefox 3.5.1 July 17 (security release) Firefox 3.0.12 July 21 (security release) I've been using RHL/RHEL since v2.1, and if they publish and maintain a release calendar the way they do for Fedora releases, I haven't seen it. So I don't have any way to determine -- without asking here -- when a change will occur. From the above release dates, your suggestion that "the RHEL5.4 beta was probably cut months before Firefox 3.5 was released" is obviously incorrect. Since Firefox 3.5 was released 19 days after the Firefox 3.0.11 that's in RHEL5.4beta, I think a reworded version of my question is still a fair one: When will we get Firefox 3.5 in RHEL? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
