Mint Debian

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 01:33:08PM -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> What I find frustrating with debian and stable, is that they only have
> Firefox Browser 3.5.14.
> 
> With the new release policy of browsers (Releasing new ones all the
> time), some web sites complain that you have too old of a version of a
> browser ie. Google Plus.

Yes some websites are annoying.

I guess the solution in cases of using a distribution that doesn't
release every 5 minutes, is something like the debian backports or debian
volatile, where packages are updated but compiled to be used with the
current stable release.

Lenny (old-stable) released with 3.0, and backports provided 3.5.
Squeeze shipped with 3.5, but unfortunately no backport has been done
of 3.6 or anything newer at this time.

> I tried using Firefox on Debian Stable and it complained on the Google
> Plus web site that it was too low of a version. IIcan see more sites
> doing this. I wonder if debian will change there policy on Web
> Browsers regarding what is stable or not to be more inlined with Web
> Browser release strategy?

I highly doubt debian will change the policy of what stable is, whether
it is a web browser or anything else doesn't matter.

The fact that chrome and firefox want to have a bonkers release cycle
isn't Debian's problem to solve and they are not going to.

There is always the constantly usable testing project (cut.debian.net
I think it is).

> Either way Chrome still worked :)

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