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On stability

On stability

Posted Sep 9, 2010 17:04 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: On stability by epa
Parent article: Debian squeezes out Chromium

New firefox requires new xulrunner and rendering libraries, which are not always compatible, and may require recompiling all dependent applications. If it was only firefox and thunderbird, and nothing else used the rendering engine, then sure, you could simply upgrade to the latest version without thinking. But there's other *desktop* apps involved too...


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