Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

[Travis Watkins]

On 9/26/06, Paul Marshall <soudak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I am new here, and I have been trying to catch up and read as many of
> these discussions as I can.  So I apologize if I am missing something, but I
> don't see a problem with all of this.
>
> From my understanding it sounds like Firefox (the name and icon) can be left
> in Ubuntu as long as ubuntu folks aren't modifying it and then distributing
> it under the firefox name/logo.
>
> All Mozilla is asking is that if people have patches they would like applied
> then they should take them to the moz foundation and get them worked in that
> way.  If ubuntu wants to change the browser, and not go through the moz
> foundation, then call it something else and use a different logo.
>
> Why doesn't ubuntu just leave the firefox browser (with name/logo) in the
> distro and not modify it, and if an ubuntu developer has a patch for it, or
> what not, then go join in on the moz foundation and get it worked in that
> way -- seems to me that that's the way things should be.
>
> Then the sweet patch impacts everyone using firefox, not just ubuntu folks.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

1) We patch it so it doesn't do autoupdate.
2) We do security patches, not updating to the latest versions.
3) We patch it to use the human theme.
4) I believe we turn on more GNOME integration stuff then upstream.

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Travis Watkins
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