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Re: Firefox 3.5 [Re: Minutes of Release Team meeting today,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 9 00:33:10 2009

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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A slight foible to be aware of: I installed Firefox 3.5 on my personal
Jaunty machine with "apt-get install firefox-3.5" and it works great...
but it calls itself Shiretoko instead of Firefox.

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 15:54 -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > Some people requested firefox 3.5.  We will likely punt this until Karmic,
> > though investigation is required to determine how well it coexists with FF 3.0
> > and what, if any, changes are made to system or per-user defaults.
> 
> I used the firefox-3.5 package (and firefox-3.5-gnome-support) during the 
> Jaunty beta cycle.  It coexisted fine with firefox-3.0: /usr/bin/firefox 
> still ran firefox-3.0, and firefox-3.5 used a separate Firefox profile 
> directory.  This is probably still the case in Jaunty final, but someone 
> should check to be sure.
> 
> (In Karmic, firefox-3.5 is the default.)
> 
> Anders


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