I for my part would be happy if Firefox stayed at 1.5 in Dapper. Unfortunately, AFAIK there's no Plastikfox-theme available for Firefox 2, so I would lose my (cosmetical) KDE integration with an upgraded Firefox. Debian shows that it's possible to support an outdated Firefox securitywise; Firefox in Sarge is still at 1.0.4. But I'm quite sure that nobody begrudges Sarge's Firefox maintainers for their job, and Debian announced that they "cannot predict it today, but during the lifetime of etch the Debian Security Team may come to a point where supporting Mozilla products is no longer feasible and announce the end of security support for Mozilla products"[1].
And as an add on to your last paragraph; (careful, rhetorical rant ahead!) how can the FLOSS community blame Adobe for not releasing a 64 bit Flash plugin for Firefox, when not even Mozilla Corp. supplies and supports a "retail" 64 bit Firefox themselves? Isn't it quite a shame, that the vendor of one of the worlds mostly used open source software (just my personal assumption) behaves just as ignorant regarding 64 bit computing as the rest of the closed source vendors? Sometimes I must ask myself, why I'm not switching to Konqueror for web browsing. Ah, yes, nspluginwrapper doesn't work with Konqueror (*bites himself*). [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch- information.en.html#s-mozilla-security -- No backport of Firefox 2.o to Dapper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89704 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
