Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

Samuel Cormier-Iijima sciyoshi at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 23:13:45 BST 2006


On 9/26/06, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com> wrote:
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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).

Yes, of course that's what I meant :-)



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