Awesome, Firefox 4 is out!
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I just was at a friends place and there I tried Firefox 4 out. It rocks. WebM stuff on youtube actually looks the same like the flash player, no difference except for some resolutions are not available and maybe something else is wrong.
All my excitement boils down to the question: will Firefox 4 be made available through an update in 4.5 or will it only be included in the next release?
Well Trisquel doesn't use FF I don't know if they will put a re-branded FF 4 in Trisquel before the release. but you can add the ubuntu repository for FF 4 if you don't mind the mozilla branding and you are careful of which addons you install.
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The Mozilla branding is not a problem at all; it is not a freedom issue, in other words. We're just required by trademark law change the branding because our version is modified in some way (mainly, in that it doesn't recommend any non-free add-ons).
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Sure, I could make it work, somehow. Guess the best option would be to wait until IceCat gets updated and then use that one, or maybe Iceweasel gets updated first. Or the Ubuntu repos as a last resort. But since FF 4 is getting rebranded into Web Browser at some point anyway, I just wanted to know if it Web Browser 4 will be available for Trisquel 4.5 or only for the next release.
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In all likelihood, we will have to wait until the next release.
Not necessarily. Icecat 4.0 is in RC1 (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2011-03/msg00026.html) and will probably hit before 5.0 Trisquel.
I think typically releases don't upgrade software, but will patch it. That is, patch older versions for security, but won't go a significant step, like 3-4. However, with browsers, a full version upgrade may be the only way to keep up with security... I am no expert, but that is my reading of standard practices.
If I had to take an "educated" guess, we will have it shortly after Icecat is released, even if we are still on version 4.5. A lot of things were automated with this release, and that may include compiling software easier and pushing out updates... but I don't really know for sure so don't quote me on this of course.
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I just noticed this thread has some helpful info. Icecat apparently wastes space not using Debian libraries already installed, and that is why it is "Web Browser" although functionally it is the same. (Well less prone to error now it seems.) Not sure how much trouble it is to prep Web Browser after an update to Icecat, and this is a more "major" update.
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