Firefox *is* just the next regular security update for 4.0 users. What
do you suggest instead, shall we just not provide the security update?
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I suggest doing the Debian way and backport security fixes. That gives
both stability and security.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/800637
Title:
Firefox 5 shouldn't be a security
No way, thanks. Firstly, it's a significant amount of work, especially
with the new release model. I've got no idea how this is going to work
in Debian really. In addition to that, stability definitely is *not*
guaranteed when security fixes (sometimes very large patches) are being
backported and
I don't see a problem with releasing the latest Firefox as a separate
package so that I can choose to have the latest. What I like to have is
a web-browser that my plugins work today the same way they worked
yesterday, that's the reason for to run the supplied version in the
first place.
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That doesn't really solve any problems. With your suggestion, not only
are you expecting us to backport potentially significant amounts of code
every 6 weeks for 3 years (which will get progressively more difficult,
more time consuming and more fragile as the upstream code base evolves),
but you
The specific plugin I had problem with was firebug, but that's besides the
point.
The job you are describing is the exact same job that I expect a distribution
to do, and that have been done so far by the Ubuntu team. I can't really see
why this should be a problem now.
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Because, Mozilla used to support multiple stable branches of Firefox,
each for nearly the entire life of an Ubuntu release. This meant that it
wasn't much of an issue before as we would only need to backport
security fixes for a few months of a particular Ubuntu release. That is
not the case any
Note that firebug should be working btw. Have you managed to upgrade it
yet? If not, do you have the old firebug xpi available? Or do you
remember the exact version of firebug you had previously? I'd like to
take a look at it to see if I can figure out why the addon manager
didn't get you the
