Firefox 3.5 coming out -- will it be in Slackware 13?
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Overall, it looks like a good improvement from the news reports. I'm particularly exited by the embedded video player that handles Ogg Theora-encoded video.
So, is it possible Firefox 3.5 will be included in Slackware 13? If not, maybe it could be available as a patch like what happened when Firefox 2 came out just after Slackware 11 did.
Pat included the update to Firefox 2.0 in the changelog with this note:
Quote:
Sat Oct 28 23:52:38 CDT 2006
patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-2.0-i686-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 2.0. This is a completely optional enhanced feature package update. Usually I'd reserve this space only for security patches (which this is not), but Firefox 2.0 is just so cool that I couldn't resist upgrading it, especially with Slackware 11.0 so recently released.
It's hard to say, it depends on when sw 13 comes out. If FF 3.5 is released at about the same time then it will either be included or as a patch. Probably 3.5 will be "just so cool" Pat won't be able to resist ... again
Actually 3.5 seems to be noticeably faster than 3.0, and there are no compatibily issues like the 2.0 -> 3.0 switch as far as I can see. It also seems stable ... no reason not to include it.
But that means that you're running FF as root, that's not a great idea (not much harm done if you only do that for upgrades, but don't do that by default).
If you run it as a user, the auto-upgrade mechanism won't work.
And even if you run it as root, it sometimes fails and then you still need to install it manually. ...
Even if it's not in 13 I'm sure it'll be quickly added to -current thereafter. As has been mentioned, it really isn't a 'difficult' upgrade as far as compatibility goes.
Even if it's not in 13 I'm sure it'll be quickly added to -current thereafter. As has been mentioned, it really isn't a 'difficult' upgrade as far as compatibility goes.
Agreed, I just used the slackware64-current slackbuild. All I had to do was edit a few lines wait for it to compile and now its working fine. I'm guessing it will make its way in but if not it really is a easy upgrade.
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