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    Firefox 2.0 for Dapper Drake AMD64

    According to Mozilla Firefox 1.5 will be at end of life on April 24, 2007 (today). Dapper Drake, the long term release is still current and will be until 2009 on the desktop. For the 32bit version it is simple to just go to Mozilla, download 2.0 and copy it in place. But not so for the 64bit version of Dapper Drake. I have tried compiling it and have not had any success yet.
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    Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper Drake AMD64

    Quote Originally Posted by Kilz View Post
    According to Mozilla Firefox 1.5 will be at end of life on April 24, 2007 (today). Dapper Drake, the long term release is still current and will be until 2009 on the desktop. For the 32bit version it is simple to just go to Mozilla, download 2.0 and copy it in place. But not so for the 64bit version of Dapper Drake. I have tried compiling it and have not had any success yet.
    crucial for me also...
    well ubuntu has 6.10 and 7.04 out but 6.06 is the first LTS version and need to be taken seriously...

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    Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper Drake AMD64

    Quote Originally Posted by madmetal View Post
    crucial for me also...
    well ubuntu has 6.10 and 7.04 out but 6.06 is the first LTS version and need to be taken seriously...
    I prefer Dapper over Edgy. I have yet to form an opinion about Feisty. Dapper is very stable for me. I have tested other versions. But I have yet found a reason to move away from Dapper while almost 2 years of updates remain, 4 on my server.
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    Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper Drake AMD64

    Quote Originally Posted by Kilz View Post
    I prefer Dapper over Edgy. I have yet to form an opinion about Feisty. Dapper is very stable for me. I have tested other versions. But I have yet found a reason to move away from Dapper while almost 2 years of updates remain, 4 on my server.
    i also prefer dapper over edgy
    and good news is that support has been extended to the middle of May.
    http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=178

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    Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper Drake AMD64

    Quote Originally Posted by madmetal View Post
    i also prefer dapper over edgy
    and good news is that support has been extended to the middle of May.
    http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=178
    That is only a matter of weeks, so the backport is still needed. I doubt it will be extended a second time.
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    Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper Drake AMD64

    Quote Originally Posted by Kilz View Post
    That is only a matter of weeks, so the backport is still needed. I doubt it will be extended a second time.
    https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu...+question/4012
    lets hope the devs will make it soon..

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