Firefox 1.5 Backport

[ubuntu27]

I just want to say a word to Ubuntu Backport team and the Dev.

Keep up your good work. I love you guys You are the best.
Just take your time

[Daedalus]

Firefox 1.5 RC 3 is avaible on Dapper repositories (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/). Why the same cannot be done in Breezy? It only differs in three packages.

[ember]

Because there are a couple of packages that depend on firefox and will break in breezy because of the newer firefox version.

[Niomi]

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your hard work. I will be watching for 1.5 to show up in the repositories!

[jdong]

Firefox 1.5 RC 3 is avaible on Dapper repositories (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/). Why the same cannot be done in Breezy? It only differs in three packages.

A couple posts up, I did post SourceForge URLS to where you can get that package backported to Breezy. I also posted a list of 50+ package source archives that need to be recompiled in order for Firefox to run without breakage.

[clayasaurus]

I just downloaded firefox 1.5 from the mozilla site and it works fine on breezy. I don't see what the big deal is.

[tenshu]

And what would happen if a major security hole is discovered in 1.0.7 ?

[GTvulse]

And what would happen if a major security hole is discovered in 1.0.7 ?

The Security Team would backport the proper fix and release a patched package. Considering that the actual version installed in your computer is 1.0.7-0ubuntu20 you can be sure that has already happened more than once.

[kiddo]

Hi all, I just wanted to drop by the fact that I am an epiphany user mainly because Firefox 1.0.x series were such a performance hog, and I decided to give 1.5 a try.

I accidentally clicked the download link on mozilla's website actually (honest!) and found out that it was simply a tar.gz containing the firefox directory. That meant a simple install just like in my old firebird on windows days! so if you guys need it, although this is not going to install it system-wide, you can just extract that somewhere and run "firefox" (that's the name of the executable) inside that folder. Making a gnome launcher for that took me only a few seconds. And I have to say I'm impressed by the speed. It no longer lags while switching tabs.

[duffman25]

Hi all, I just wanted to drop by the fact that I am an epiphany user mainly because Firefox 1.0.x series were such a performance hog, and I decided to give 1.5 a try.

I accidentally clicked the download link on mozilla's website actually (honest!) and found out that it was simply a tar.gz containing the firefox directory. That meant a simple install just like in my old firebird on windows days! so if you guys need it, although this is not going to install it system-wide, you can just extract that somewhere and run "firefox" (that's the name of the executable) inside that folder. Making a gnome launcher for that took me only a few seconds. And I have to say I'm impressed by the speed. It no longer lags while switching tabs.

you also need to have libstdc++5 installed.

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install libstdc++5