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They ARE supporting itThey ARE supporting itPosted Jul 17, 2008 1:25 UTC (Thu) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587)In reply to: They ARE supporting it by khim Parent article: Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released Latest version is 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614c-0ubuntu1 - and yes, it includes backports from 2.0.0.15. Keeping Firefox at 1.5 for the sake of appearance of "long term support" seems rather misdirected in this case. Apart from a few ancient add-ons, does upgrading Firefox to 2.0 or 3.0 really break anything? Surely Ubuntu can put the engineering resources into something more important. (Even Red Hat's rather crusty RHEL 4.x is getting an upgrade to Firefox 3.0.)
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Extensions? Posted Jul 17, 2008 4:47 UTC (Thu) by midg3t (guest, #30998) [Link] The way Firefox extensions work (AFAIK) is that they have to be whitelisted as "works with version X" so a major upgrade like 1.5 to 2.0 would break every extension. This is not ideal. Users can go and upgrade the extensions on the system and in their profiles, but that is a long, long way from being a drop-in replacement with no side effects.
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