Firefox 3.5 coming out -- will it be in Slackware 13?
 

Hi all,

It looks like Firefox 3.5 will be coming out this week: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4430

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:

Regards,

-Drew

It's not in the current change log, but that doesn't mean that it won't ever be there. We'll just have to see what Pat does.

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 :)

It is now released, I'm guessing it will be included.

Yeah, it was released just a few minutes ago, because I checked a few minutes ago and it wasn't released yet :)

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.

If it ain't included, you could still install it later on? It's not so, that if it ain't in the release, it can't be installed later on?

In my opinion I think FF 3.5 would be a welcome addition to 13.0.

You can always install it.
I've been running FF 3.5 (alpha's and beta's) since months now.
No problem.

Hell, even I can.

I'm running 3,5 for about half a minute now.. Just clicked Help -> Check for updates, 3,5 popped, clicked install now, blinked and voila: 3.5

No need to squeeze FF 3.5 in SW 13.0; If it's that simple to upgrade from 3.0 to 3.5, why bother?

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.

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.

Daedra it doen't compile Firefox only patch and repackage then into an slackware package.

Actually the version for Slackware64 -current does compile it from source.