Comments on: Ubuntu Hardy Heron upgrade, amazing in one way, great in many, BUT crazy and annoying in 1!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:05:42 +0000

Fair comments thank you. I think that the google toolbar issue for Firefox 3beta is the crucial one right now, but nobody seems to know when G will release it.

As advocates and users of OSS, I would hope that G will address this very shortly.

By: Ryan W

Ryan W — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:40:17 +0000

You can still get firefox 2 from the repos too. Just sudo apt-get install (or use synaptic) firefox-2 and firefox-2-gnome-support

By: Nigel Morton

Nigel Morton — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:47:43 +0000

I have to say that this must have been a difficult decision but, on balance, is probably right given that Firefox 3 is generally such an improvement. In the past, I’ve forced extension compatibility by changing

extensions.checkCompatibility and
extensions.checkUpdateSecurity

to false in about:config. Obviously, this doesn’t magically make extensions work but it does allow them to install. I’ve found few problems doing this but your mileage may vary in a big way!

Excellent blog, btw.

By: Matthew Flaschen

Matthew Flaschen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:17:52 +0000

It’s Firefox 3 /because/ Heron is LTS. Firefox 2 will soon be discontinued, which means it can’t be included in an LTS release (LTS requires long-term support for all included software)