Is Ubuntu going to adapt Ice Weasel?

Toby Smithe toby.smithe at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 18:40:32 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:48 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:52 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 18:58 -0500, Brandon Holtsclaw wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 18:48, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> > > > There’s always the option of IceWeasel in main, Firefox in restricted
> > > > (or multiverse, or commercial). 
> > > 
> > > If that is the open chosen why pull yet another browser in ( e.g IceWeazle ) 
> > > there is konqueror and I'm sure gnome has and eqiv, and if the user wants 
> > > something "more" there is FireFox in multiverse ( adding yet another item to 
> > > the CommonCustomizations Spec )
> > 
> > I like this one.  Makes epiphany the default Ubuntu-Gnome browser (it's
> > already in main), something quite a few people want anyway, and put the
> > vanilla mozilla.org's Firefox in multiverse for the people who want it.
> > 
> This would certainly be my preferred option also.  If we can't ship
> Firefox under that name in main, I would rather we shipped firefox
> elsewhere for "people who want it", and then chose a better integrated
> browser such as Epiphany as our default.

This is definitely the route I'd prefer to take.




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