John Vivirito wrote:
> Bob Kline wrote:
>
>>> Does this work in ffox 3 RC1?
>>>
>> Chances could be improved of getting an answer to the question if (s)he
>> is provided with instructions for how to test this without disturbing
>> his/her package management system setup. I haven't had much luck in
>> getting responses to my requests for such instructions in similar
>> circumstances (otherwise I'd post the instructions myself). :-)
>>
>>
> Can you please follow the instructions at the following link on how to
> start witha clean profile and test it with Firefox RC1 with a new profile.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs
>
>
Hi, John.
Not sure whether you were directing this request to me or to Daz (or
both), but in any case while the instructions to which you link appear
to have plenty of useful information about juggling Firefox profiles,
they don't address the issue to which I was referring. I've seen
estimates that there are over 8 million Ubuntu users. I'd be surprised
if as many as 8,000 of them (.1%) have a sufficiently thorough
understanding of how the package management system works to know the
answers to all of the following questions:
1. If someone asks me to install a package on my Ubuntu machine and
it doesn't show up in Synaptic's list of available packages, what
do I do?
2. If I need to manipulate the list of package sources, how do I know
which ones to trust?
3. If I need to add sources for packages, how do the sources interact
with each other?
4. What are the possible drawbacks to adding package sources?
5. If I remove sources, what happens to the packages I got from those
sources?
6. What bad things can happen if I install software without going
through the package management system?
7. What are all of the things I could do to cause the package
management system to stop working correctly?
8. What do I do to fix the package management system if it stops
working correctly?
Surely the Ubuntu team wants to get bug feedback from a broader
community than this elite subset of Ubuntu gurus. I'm definitely not in
that group, but these are questions that cross my mind when I'm asked to
try the latest beta of some program to see if the bugs are fixed, and I
know I've got plenty of company. I've asked on more than one occasion
for someone to direct me to documentation which addresses these
questions comprehensively, and I'm inclined to think that such
documentation doesn't exist, based on the lack of response. I'd be
delighted to be proved wrong (even if that proof comes with some "it was
right under your nose, silly" ridicule), and I'd be more than happy to
use those instructions if they show me how to install Firefox 3RC1
safely so I can do the testing you ask for.
(As an aside, I suspect that Daz didn't even realize you were asking
him/her to test with a different version of Firefox than is available by
default with 8.04, based on the mention of switching profiles without
identifying the version of FF used for the test.)
--
Bob Kline
http://www.rksystems.com
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