814456 - update system requirements for Firefox/Thunderbird on Linux

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

With 17.0 we require a newer GTK version than before. These bugs have details:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772563
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793634

Comment 1

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/17.0/system-requirements/ done for Firefox - passing on to Mark for TB.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This was already done on Thunderbird prior to release:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/17.0/system-requirements/

Comment 3

[Alexander L. Slovesnik]

Should "GNOME 2.16 or higher" be removed from recommendations? Firefox/Thunderbird already requires "GTK+ 2.18 or higher". GTK 2.18 has been released with GNOME 2.28 - http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/index.html.en#rndevelopers.gtk
Is it really possible to use GNOME 2.16 with GTK+ 2.18?

Comment 4

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

(In reply to Alexander L. Slovesnik from comment #3)
> Is it really possible to use GNOME 2.16 with GTK+ 2.18?

I think the GNOME version is irrelevant. Now, to answer your question, theoretically, yes, because gtk+ 2.x is backwards compatible. In practice, there probably aren't anyone with this combination, if gtk 2.18 came out at the time of GNOME 2.28 release.