Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

Toby Smithe toby.smithe at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 23:11:38 BST 2006


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Samuel Cormier-Iijima wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Eldo Varghese <poningru at ufl.edu> wrote:
>>> 1) We patch it so it doesn't do autoupdate.
>> Autoupdate is simply a userpref option, minor 'patch', they wouldn't care.
> 
> I don't see why this can't be a build switch - if I remember
> correctly, didn't they say that using different build switches would
> be alright?
> 
>>> 2) We do security patches, not updating to the latest versions.
>> I have always wondered about this, why do we backport security patch to
>> the same branch? for example 1.5.0.7 patch backported to 1.5.0.4, why
>> not just use 1.5.0.7
>>> 3) We patch it to use the human theme.
>> Again adding a new theme and setting it as default is pretty
>> straightforward, they would not have any problems with it.
>>> 4) I believe we turn on more GNOME integration stuff then upstream.
>> Now this stuff they probably would care about, but why not gave through
>> the approval process?
>> - Eldo
> 
> Couldn't this also be in a switch?
> 
> Still, it seems to me that Mozilla is handling this quite badly - as
> others said, maybe it's time to go with Evolution? :-)
> 

I think you mean Epiphany. Evolution is a groupware suite. Epiphany is a
browser based on XULRunner (like Firefox).

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