On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Since Mozilla switched to the new rapid release model, Firefox in
Fedora
is no longer fun: Every 6 weeks a new major version hits our stable
release and breaks Firefox horribly:
* My favorite extensions (and actually the only thing that keeps
me using FF) stop working. In the last 7 weeks I had to pitch in
three times and update packages to get things working again.
Sometimes there is not even an update available upstream.
Which extensions are you talking about? The ones I use never caused an
such issues.
* Firefox falls back to English as there is no language pack
provided. I have to go go the FTP server and download and
install the XPI file manually.
Something is broken on your system.
rpm -qV firefox should tell you that.
So what can we do to improve the situation?
1. Can we bring back the language packs as part of the packages?
They are already there.
2. Can the FF maintainers make sure that all maintainers of
extensions get notified of changes *before* release of a new
package?
Which maintainers are you talking about? Packaged extensions or
upstream extension maintainers?
3. Can someone (I'm looking at you, QA) make sure all
extensions
are still compatible?
That's already one of the test cases but you can't expect people to
test every extension in the world.