Upgrade Firefox to 3.6 for Lucid

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

As we all can see, Firefox 3.6 version has just entered Release Candidate stage of development:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html
Considering this and the fact that incoming Lucid is going to be LTS, I think Firefox should be upgraded to 3.6rc1 in Lucid repositories.

Another issue is the re-design of Mozilla policy on issuing new Firefox versions: they intend to do it more frequently (versions like 3.7 should come quite soon). Taking this into account, it should be considered if 3.6 will be upgraded to 3.7 in Lucid (as a "minor" upgrade) or will it happen only for the next Ubuntu release.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 12 02:45:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: firefox 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 410959, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

To answer your question about the version upgrade, we're working on moving Firefox to be able to handle Major Version upgrades during stable releases. I'll link the blueprint to the other bug.