URL paste in firefox 3

[Bill Jonas]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:35:57PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Actually, I am not "blaming" anyone.  I simply won't use it until it
> is stable AND works with googlesync.  Heck, if I was going to blame
> anyone if would be ubuntu/Canonical for including beta software in an
> LTS release.  Generally a poor decision IMHO.

I think that the reasoning was that supporting what is effectively the
old version for the entire LTS period was going to be difficult.  I
imagine that they'll update to the actual release when it becomes
available -- at least, that was the reasoning I read somewhere.

This way, they're not stuck with the choice of either being behind by a
major version in a year, or upgrading to the later version and having to
upgrade all the extensions, etc.

Not a great decision they were faced with, but in the sense of updating
to Firefox 3 and keeping the meaning of "stable" meaningful (as in,
binary and config-file compatibility), their decision seems more
reasonable.

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