Semi-forced upgrade of browser - problematic when it is Iceweasel

[Lior Kaplan]

Hi Omer,

Well, for home use you can use testing instead of stable to get more updated
software.
In that case, you might want to follow the security team's policy about
testing.

Firefox/iceweasel 3.6 won't enter unstable in the near future, as this
requires an update for xul, which is also used by thunerbird/icedove.

The maintainer said he is focused on 3.5.8 for the next stable.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:

> Today when I visited http://www.youtube.com/, I was greeted by a message
> that my browser will be unsupported soon, and my browser was the current
> Iceweasel 3 version from Debian Lenny.
>
> The earliest Firefox version to be supported is Firefox 3.6.
> I quickly browsed http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php (the Debian
> Backports), and found that Firefox 3.5.6 was backported to Debian Lenny
> as Iceweasel 3.5.6.  So I installed it to ease future upgrade to
> Iceweasel 3.6 once it is available.
>
> So now I hope that someone will backport and create Iceweasel 3.6 before
> YouTube cuts off all support for non-HTML5-compliant browsers.
> Otherwise, I may have to install Firefox 3.6 not as a Debian package.
>
>                                                          --- Omer
> P.S.: the upgrade is only semi-forced because YouTube is a Nice To Have
> rather than Essential.
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