firefox 3 on the long support distros

[jnash2001]

Has anyone noticed that RHEL 5, as Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, are shipping Firefox 3?
Not that Firefox 3 isn't working for me, I use it everyday but I just find it interesting that Redhat puts it on RHEL which I thought it was like Debian/stable.

[Tsuroerusu]

Not that Firefox 3 isn't working for me, I use it everyday but I just find it interesting that Redhat puts it on RHEL which I thought it was like Debian/stable.

Red Hat releases a "Service Pack" so to speak, for RHEL roughly two times per year, these include driver updates and bugfixes etc. they updated Firefox as part of RHEL 5.2. I would guess it's because Mozilla will be terminating support for Firefox 2.0 eventually, so this way they will have less work in the future backporting security fixes.

[snarkout]

Seems like dumbass reasoning to me - let's ship beta *now* so we don't have to upgrade to stable *later*

That sais, FF3 has been more or less stable for me for a while now.

[allix]

WOW , that makes two posts that I agree with you Snarkout

Shipping beta software is just ridiculous , I have heard that the new rc1 version has broken extensions and bookmarks which were working on beta5 , how can red hat ship this ?

I have tried searching to see when firefox 2.x end of support finishes to no avail. I do remember that 1.5.x lasted at least a year after 2.x came out.

jnash2001 , was kde 4.0.x part of the new support pack too

[snarkout]

WOW , that makes two posts that I agree with you Snarkout

maybe I'm mellowing in my old age.