Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 11

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,

Basil Chupin wrote:

And what do you think are the "certain features" which may be lacking but provided in the suse packages? I am not aware that suse is in the business of re-writing packages such as Firefox or Thunderbird.

First of all the Firefox 2.0.0.12 update arrived at least in the buildservice at about the same time as anywhere else in the web.

So, as a person who decided to switch to openSUSE and a new user, I am supposed to know via ISP that 'it' has arrived in the buildservice? - but doing so it did not replace my security-deficient version of FF and so left me vulnerable?

Come on, please be reasonable and realise that there are big hassles which most people here keep overlooking or ignoring because it is politically incorrect or considered as being anti-suse or anti-linux.


Even if you are free to use whatever you want there are a few changes in the SUSE version of Firefox 2.x. Some of them might not be of interest for you but still it is "better distribution integration":

- Tango theme is prepackaged and used under Gnome
- added some search providers
- changed default bookmarks
- support X11 session management (better)
- using locale from the environment
- support for lockdown mode
- support commandline args for helper apps
- get network status from NetworkManager
- supports startup notification
- use supported and default paper sizes from CUPS printers
- being able to use system proxy settings
- some other general bugfixes which are not upstream integrated
- pango font rendering support
- seamless integration with distribution provided plugins/extensions
- pulls in installed dictionaries automatically Wolfgang

Sorry, and I am not being offensive, but all the "reasons" you mention above are just lame and not relevant (to be polite) points.

Take for example your claim that, "-use supported and default paper sizes from CUPS printers". I have little trouble with printing with my non-openSUSE version of FF to my printer(s).

More, "Added some search providers". So what exactly is the big deal? One can add additional 'search providers' at any time without relying on Suse. In fact, I have *thrown out* most of the pre-installed search providers.

I won't go through the rest of the list because the items are all questionable, sorry.

Ciao.



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