Comments on: Would you like iceweasel 3.0 and 3.5 to be co-installable ?

By: Aaron Calderon

Aaron Calderon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:48:59 +0000

Hi,

Yes, I would like to have such a feature to be available. I find myself with the need to install more than one version of Firefox (Iceweasel) on my linux system.

Please so.

By: Samat

Samat — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:39:45 +0000

There’s a profile sharing problem if multiple versions of Firefox can be installed, which qocx (comment #7) touched upon.

firefox-3.0 and firefox-3.5 would both use ~/.mozilla/firefox to store profiles. A profile generated with one version of Firefox may not be compatible with another (particularly w.r.t. extensions). Users would have to keep two separate profiles, and juggle to make sure whatever version of Firefox they started used the appropriate profile. Given the juggling involved, it really puts perspective into how many would actually run both 3.0 and 3.5 simultaneously.

That said, I don’t think it’s worth the extra work, and would rather firefox-3.5 appear in the archives sooner rather than later.

By: FTF3k3

FTF3k3 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:52:46 +0000

I’d like to have 3.5 in Sid.

By: P. Damelos

P. Damelos — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:53:24 +0000

I wouldn’t use such a feature, so it’s a no from me.

By: Michael Schurter (@schmichael)

Michael Schurter (@schmichael) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:39:11 +0000

Please no. Please please no.

I’m a web developer who routinely tests sites in multiple versions of browsers, and *I* don’t want this. It just overcomplicates what should be a clean, seamless, and straightforward upgrade process.

Those few people who need multiple versions know how to install them.

IMHO Co-installable packages make sense for projects like pgsql whose audience is highly technical to begin with as well as projects for whom old versions remain popular long after updates (games? programming languages, etc). Firefox doesn’t fall into either of these categories.

By: Bicycle Wrench Set

Bicycle Wrench Set — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:33:16 +0000

I don’t know where else to put this info but I thought you should know when I tried to sign up for the rss feed I got tons of error messages and then my ‘puter froze up and I could not sign up.

By: Piotr Kubaj

Piotr Kubaj — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:06:37 +0000

I don’t think it’s a good idea. Though, I think it’s considerable that the last stable release (3.5.3 for now) be put to unstable and the last unstable official release (not some tinderbox of nightlies, in this case 3.6a1) be put to experimental.

By: Maththias

Maththias — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:16:49 +0000

No.

By: Sheridan Hutchinson

Sheridan Hutchinson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:30:19 +0000

Personally I don’t feel that installing two versions would add any value to Debian.

As an end user, what would add value is more timely promotion of newer versions. 3.5 has been out for an age and not got near Sid yet.

By: Petr

Petr — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:18:01 +0000

Its good idea! I am not Web developer but I welcome new version of Iceweasel…