On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:35:39AM -0000, TWO wrote:
> I'm not sure whether it's a Firefox 3 issue myself, but I can confirm
> that it's an issue with Firefox 2. I reinstalled it when I upgraded to
> Kubuntu Hardy Heron and the problem still persists. It would be nice if
> this was fixed for Firefox 2 though since I'm not sure when Firefox 3 is
> going to stop being beta and then there's the fact that anyone using
> (K)(X)Ubuntu 8.04 is stuck with this version until October.
>
The fact that firefox 3 is called "beta" doesn't mean that its
instable or something. We put firefox 3 intentionally as default as
our testing showed that its ready for prime time.
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:35:39AM -0000, TWO wrote:
> I'm not sure whether it's a Firefox 3 issue myself, but I can confirm
> that it's an issue with Firefox 2. I reinstalled it when I upgraded to
> Kubuntu Hardy Heron and the problem still persists. It would be nice if
> this was fixed for Firefox 2 though since I'm not sure when Firefox 3 is
> going to stop being beta and then there's the fact that anyone using
> (K)(X)Ubuntu 8.04 is stuck with this version until October.
>
The fact that firefox 3 is called "beta" doesn't mean that its
instable or something. We put firefox 3 intentionally as default as
our testing showed that its ready for prime time.
BTW, mozilla thinks so too:
http:// www.reuters. com/article/ technologyNews/ idUSN2041266520 080320
Please test if this an issue for you in ffox 3
Firefox 2 wont see any non-critical fixes. Marking accordingly
affects ubuntu/firefox
status wontfix
- Alexander