[Flashblock] Flashblock and Firefox 1.5

[Philip Chee]

On 19/11/05, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at colitti.com> wrote:

> one big "Install Flashblock" link. We can call it Flashblock 1.5 so
> there's no confusion.

Sounds fine to me.


When does 1.5 final come out? I think I should redo the installation
page a couple of days before hand. At the moment there is a
regression with the flashplayer 8 plugin bug in RC3 that was fixed
in RC2. I've reopened this bug and I'm tracking this at the moment.

> version. I suggest we do this by requiring a minVersion of 1.5 for
> Flashblock 1.5. Once Firefox 1.5 comes out, if people insist on using
> Firefox 1.0.x, well, they can just use the old version.

Ok with me.

> Once this is done and Flashblock 1.5 is packaged and tested we should
> upload it to Mozilla Update and remove the v1.2.9 that's currently
> there. The minVersion of 1.5 should stop Firefox 1.0.x from
> automatically upgrading, and again, if people insist on using Firefox
> 1.0.x they can come to flashblock.mozdev.org.

OK.

> Thoughts?

> Note: this is obviously Firefox-centric because I don't use anything
> else. Phil, what do we need to do for other browsers? I suppose
> recent versions of Seamonkey should be fine, but what about Camino

Mozilla and Seamonkey don't use install.rdf so min/max versions
(outside of a.u.m.o) don't apply. The current CVS will work with
Moz 1.7x and with Seamonkey 1.0.* (natch).

I guess I can maintain the 1.3x branch for those on Mozilla 1.7.12
until SeaMonkey provides an upgrade path with 1.0 final.

> K-meleon?

Current versions of KM have Flashblock packaged in. I'll leave
this to the KM packagers which version they want to track.

The CamiTools people have packaged a Flashblock installer for
Camino (camiflash). They can just extract the latest files from
our CVS. The current Camino builds are Gecko 1.8 anyway.

> I don't give a hoot about Netscape 8, I won't be sorry if we
> drop it.

They can continue using FB 1.3.x. But yeah, looking into the NS8
jar files, the bits added by Netscape look fragile and
insufficiently QA'd. Did you know that if you use NS8 outside a
north american time zone there is a bug where NS8 freezes at 22:00
and needs to be killed via the task manager?

Phil