Firefox 1.0.6 Removed from backports

[ShaneAu]

I've been using 1.06 since it hit staging last week. I've had no problems with it.
AFAIK all of the problems were with 1.05.
See this: http://www.informationweek.com/story...leID=166401151

Yep no problems here either. So all is good so it seems. .

[jdong]

excellent, it'll go into stable during the next mass-promotion.

[jdong]

Martin Pitt (who is in charge of security at Ubuntu) and I had a quick e-mail conversation, and here's what he said:

John Dong [2005-07-24 15:32 -0400]:
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubu...ly/043452.html
>
> >From this mailing list entry, it seems like you're saying that 1.0.6 has the
> same problems as 1.0.5 and the recent Ubuntu Security update. However, here
> at Backports, we've packaged Breezy's 1.0.6 for testing in the staging tree.
> >From the reports (8 or so, more coming) we've gathered, it seems like
> 1.0.6doesn't exhibit the instability that the USN update has.

One of the first things I tried was the packaged
mozilla-tabextensions, which does not work with 1.0.6 as well.
However, I tried some more extensions, and these worked with 1.0.6.

I'll try to backport the 1.0.6 changes today.

Martin

[rwabel]

Martin Pitt (who is in charge of security at Ubuntu) and I had a quick e-mail conversation, and here's what he said:

now I'm curious which version I should use, the one from hoary-security or the back-port one? backport is newer, but is it the more stable one?

[jdong]

Use the Backports one. I've gotten a report or two from others that the official hoary-security one crashes more than the Backports package.

I don't know the validity, and I won't go on a revenge-rant about these non-Backports bug reports finding their way to me...... (shuts up)

[rwabel]

Use the Backports one. I've gotten a report or two from others that the official hoary-security one crashes more than the Backports package.

I don't know the validity, and I won't go on a revenge-rant about these non-Backports bug reports finding their way to me...... (shuts up)

thanks for the info. I had so far no problems with 1.0.6 from backport. All my extensions are working fine and I've quit a lot! thanks for the bp

[newbie2]

loaded ff 1.0.6 today via backports...ff froze then...then i restarted my comp(like in Window$ )...and it seems ok now

[glandula]

middle click to open in new window doesent seem to work anymore after installing this

[strikeforce]

Erm I install the backports one and it installed I couldn't open up firefox. I then uninstall all the firefox ones got rid of backports re-installed 1.06 off the 'official' mirrors and its all fine?

I'm not sure but the symbolic links got stuffed up. When I tried to uninstall the official version and install the backports version it removed ubuntu-desktop and yelp as well as all the other firfox files?

I'm not sure how to get around that since I'm originally from an rpm based distro.

Does dpkg have an equivalent to rpm -e --no-deps firefox?

*edit

Don't worry after a complete uninstall and re-install its all good. Ignore me.

[AgenT]

Erm I install the backports one and it installed I couldn't open up firefox. I then uninstall all the firefox ones got rid of backports re-installed 1.06 off the 'official' mirrors and its all fine?

I'm not sure but the symbolic links got stuffed up. When I tried to uninstall the official version and install the backports version it removed ubuntu-desktop and yelp as well as all the other firfox files?

I'm not sure how to get around that since I'm originally from an rpm based distro.

Does dpkg have an equivalent to rpm -e --no-deps firefox?

*edit

Don't worry after a complete uninstall and re-install its all good. Ignore me.

You also want to reinstall ubuntu-desktop. It's not a package, but a meta-package (it gives no files, rather it dictates what other packages should be installed/upgraded) and will be very useful when you upgrade from Hoary to Breezy.