Ubuntu Downgrade to Firefox 0.9.3

[Thom May]

* Chris Bozic (cbozic at gmail.com) wrote :
> The strangest thing about this bug is that it only seems to happen on
> ubuntu.  I have the newest version of firefox on two other linux
> distros and it works fine.  It just seems like a odd fix to have to
> revert back to an older version and patch all of the security fixes to
> get a working firefox.  I'm not trying to be critical here at all.  I
> know the ubuntu team is doing an amazing job because I can see the
> working distro at this early stage and I love it.  I simply don't
> understand what series of events would cause us to choose reverting
> firefox back a version or two when the newest version of firefox works
> on so many other distros.  What is it about the way ubuntu is set up
> that causes the pop-up bug to show up on this distro? 

Well, if we knew that, we'd all be rich^W^W^Wbe shipping 1.0PR.
Seriously though, the upstream bug report is showing reports from people on
at least OS X and many linuxes. It's possibly optimisation related but we've
tried building mozilla without optimisation and that doesn't change the
problem.
Enough people are seeing the problem that it's simply not practical for us
to commit to supporting it, coupled with the other problems I noted.
Cheers,
-Thom