View Poll Results: What version of Firefox are you using on Ubuntu?

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  • Firefox 1.5

    109 58.92%
  • Firefox 1.0.7 from Mozilla

    3 1.62%
  • Firefox 1.0.7 from the Ubuntu repositories

    69 37.30%
  • Firefox 1.0.6 or below

    0 0%
  • I'm not using Firefox

    4 2.16%
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Thread: What version of Firefox are you using?

  1. #1
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    What version of Firefox are you using?

    In light of anxiousness about the backporting of the new Firefox 1.5, I'm just curious as to the community's rate of adoption...

  2. #2
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    A v1.5 backport would be awesome. I don't want to 'mess' with this installation; just using packages from the repos.

  3. #3
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    FF 1.5, installed following this HowTo. Works great!

  4. #4
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    None. I'm a epiphany user.

  5. #5
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    i use 1.5. my favorite theme, blackjapan, is only made for 1.5. also, i can't stand the old preference window.

  6. #6
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    Still waiting for 1.5 in the repos , for me there are only two ways of doing things :

    A)The apt-get way

    B)The wrong way
    There is only one god, and Ubuntu is its prophet.

  7. #7
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    1.0.7 from the official repository.

    As I use the Epiphany GUI to the Firefox Gecko, I need to install it properly (with apt). I tried backporting earlier, but Blam and Devhelp broke. I'll wait a while before trying again. At least Blam needs to be patched before it works with 1.5.

  8. #8
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    Quote Originally Posted by jc87
    Still waiting for 1.5 in the repos , for me there are only two ways of doing things :

    A)The apt-get way

    B)The wrong way
    I'd have to disagree.

    Why are Linux users so afraid of installing a program which isn't available via apt-get? Windows, Firefox 1.5 is out you just go to the site and download the latest exe.

    I understand people don't want to break their system, but whilst I am quite happy using Ubuntu it actually makes me question how good Ubuntu is when updating a simple program like Firefox can break the system if done incorrectly. Surely that is just bad design - that doesn't happen in xp (or at least it didn't happen to me in the 2 or so years I used it and I installed and uninstalled a heck of a lot of programs on it).

    I'd have to say comparing to your A/B example:

    A) The insecure, buggy, outdated way - Windows anyone?
    B) The secure, safe, up-to-date way.

    @ jc87 - This is not intended to be a personal attack on yourself, this is aimed at Linux users in general who have the same views as yourself.

    Nor is this post intended as a "Hey, Linux is crap" flame, just general questions about the attitude people seem to have of prefering to use old and buggy software (which 1.07 was!).

  9. #9
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    I'm using 1.0.7 again, Firefox 1.5 was crashing every 10 minutes or so and it became a hassle.

  10. #10
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    Re: What version of Firefox are you using?

    I'm using 1.0.7 because I was sick of the lack of sound in Flash movies. (Mind you, the freeze-on-inline-box bug in 1.0.7 is also annoying, mostly because nobody's given it so much as a glance and it's been around since at least the days of Hoary.)

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