On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:16:35 -0400, "Arthur Hagen" <art@broomstick.com>
wrote:

>ZiGGi <ziggiman_REMOVE_ME_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi NG!
>>
>> I'm pretty new to Gentoo but must admit that I am really impressed!
>>
>> I've been googling a small issue I've run into but can't seem to find
>> the answer even though it is most likely really simple...
>>
>> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
>> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
>> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
>> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
>> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
>> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?
>
>This was asked here just a few weeks ago. The answer now is the same as it
>was then:
>
>It's an unstable POS? :-P
>Seriously, there's so many known bugs with Firefox that I really hope it
>won't be marked stable any time soon.
>
><URL:
>http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_d esc=Firefox&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug _status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_severity= blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&b ug_severity=normal>
>
>Popularity should never pressure maintainers into marking a package as
>stable, if it really isn't; people who really want an unstable package can
>set ~arch for that package.
>
>Regards,

Seems most of the bugs were for the 1.0.x branch.
The only bug I see in 1.5 is that using the mouse wheel to scroll up
will switch tabs. And that has happened in every linux FF version
I've ever used.

(I'm kind of hoping that someone knows how to defeat this 'feature',
as I suspect it's something inherent in X (or my configuration).
Scrolling up in Konq does a paste from Klipper.)

Peter
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