[Firefox] Why we can't update..

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sat Jan 23 23:45:21 UTC 2010


On 1/23/10 3:02 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 01/23/10 10:16, Martin Wilke wrote:
>>
>> Before we get more mails with the question why we not update
>> firefox to 3.6, the answer is easy, nox@ found some problems
>> with some plugins, this problem seems to be only FreeBSD
>> releated under Linux or Windows seems to be works all fine.
>> Some plugins crash with some open ASSERTS, we working
>> on this problem but that need a bit time. So please
>> wait a bit.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> No no, thank YOU. :)  I was going to report that moving from RC1 to RC2
> caused me a lot of problems, but nice to know that y'all are on the
> case. FWIW I have the following plugins installed, downloaded from
> addons.mozilla.org:

Ditto.  Sometimes I forget to thank folks for all the hard work they
do.  In this case, thank you for:

1) Maintaining this port
2) Making sure things work before you update
and
3) Taking the time to give everyone a heads-up about what's going on.

-Bill


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