Don’t bother downloading Firefox today
The fact is, the 3.0 release is just exactly the same code base as version 3.0rc3, which only has a MacOSX-only fix more than 3.0rc2, which is what we have in unstable, already.
2008-06-17 22:55:17+0900
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2008-06-17 23:14:09+0900
Well put. Count my non-download as a vote of confidence in distribution packaging. Let’s see more focus on developing a good Linux browsing experience (fixing that awful sync bug either in the browser or FS or whatever) and less on this marketing nonsense.
2008-06-18 08:26:47+0900
[…] June 18, 2008 by evilsense Note: Though many people, like glandium( debian package maintainer), don’t encourage firefox download because of their own reasons, I maintain that one should participate to show respect, for publicity, … […]
2008-06-18 17:58:58+0900
[…] Firefox / Iceweasel 3 Die ganze Welt redet drüber: Firefox 3 ist draußen. Wir Siduxer wurden allerdings schon ein paar Tage vorher mit der neuen Version beglückt, und zwar in Form von Icewesel 3.0~rc2. Von rc2 auf rc3 hat sich für Linuxnutzer nichts geändert und rc3 ist identisch mit der finalen Version, wie u.a. hier (en) und hier (de) nachzulesen ist. […]
2008-06-19 11:06:28+0900
If its the same code why not rename it so its not called rc2, I thought there was a diffrence and have been useing upstream firefox and missing the nice distro intergration I got from iceweasel.
2008-06-24 09:54:48+0900
[…] Credo che questo post di Mike Hommey, manteiner Debian di Iceweasel, possa fornire una previsione: il rilascio di Iceweasel 3.0 avverrà con la prima patch di sicurezza di Iceweasel, nel frattempo verrà rilasciata la RC2. Il motivo di questa scelta sarebbe semplice e anche molto pragmatico: nasce dalla constatazione che Firefox 3 è basato sulla stessa base di codice della terza release candidate la quale, rispetto alla RC 2, ha in più solo dei bugfix per Mac OS X. A questo punto diventa evidente che pacchettizzare Firefox 3 su Debian, per avere un prodotto identico alla seconda release candidate è del tutto inutile, meglio mandare avanti la RC 2 e attendere le prossime patch di sicurezza (già in Firefox 3 sono stati trovati bachi). […]