Dropping support for Mozilla suite?

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Fri Nov 19 14:28:46 CST 2004


On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:05:54AM EST, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu folks!
> 
> In Tuesday's community we discussed about the future of Mozilla. The
> Mozilla foundation seems to fade out support for the legacy Mozilla
> suite (packages mozilla-browser and mozilla-mailnews) in favor of the
> splitted new FireFox and Thunderbird packages.
> 
> Therefore we would like to confine our attention to the new programs
> and drop support for Mozilla in Hoary if there are no serious
> regressions.
> 
> So we have a question to the community: are there any advantages that
> you see for Mozilla that FireFox/Thunderbird do not have? Would you
> seriously miss Mozilla if we dropped support for it?

I think the Mozilla suite has more in the way of accessibility at this 
stage, however I am unsure just how much more.

Luke



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