[ros-dev] Proposal for FF support drop

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

If ROS is going to drop FF rosapps support, i would upload a newer FF
version to SVN (2.x is too outdated) and restart with it.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>wrote:

> You know that we're not talking about FF 2, but newer releases?
>
> Pierre already wrote that he wants to keep FF 2 in his original mail, but
> we're trying to convince him/the rest to allow a newer release as well.
>
> Btw: Mozilla wants to publish "long term support" releases in the next
> time (based either on FF 8 or FF 9) which shall be supported around ~45
> weeks. Maybe this will be a solution?
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
>
> On 15.01.2012 19:56, Daniel Reimer wrote:
>
>> Guys, you know that we already host FF 2 on our SVN Server? Check the
>> link. It will NEVER become outdated
>>
>> Am 15.01.2012 19:04, schrieb Andrew Faulds:
>>
>>> Ah yes, good point. I just randomly guessed ftp.mozilla.org - but it
>>> doesn't allow downloads of high-traffic releases.
>>>
>>> On 15 January 2012 17:16, Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.**com<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15.01.2012 16:51, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Op 15-1-2012 16:34, Andrew Faulds schreef:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Why not just drop support for FF entirely from rapps? I'd say better
>>>>>> no browser than a terribly outdated one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If users want FF they can do this:
>>>>>> C:\ReactOS> ftp
>>>>>> ftp> open ftp.mozilla.org
>>>>>> ftp> cd pub/firefox/releases/8.0/**win32/en-GB
>>>>>> ftp> get Firefox Setup 8.0.exe
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You're a version behind already ^^
>>>>> Perhaps they should create a "/current" or "/latest" and offer "FireFox
>>>>> Setup.exe" there.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At least on their "high bandwidth FTP server" releases.mozilla.org
>>>> (see the
>>>> message when opening ftp.mozilla.org in a web browser) there is a
>>>> "latest"
>>>> in their FireFox folder:
>>>> http://releases.mozilla.org/**pub/mozilla.org/firefox/**releases/<http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sven
>>>>
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