Dropping support for Mozilla suite?

[Francis X. Maier]

One of the appeals of Ubuntu is how lean and focused it is.  I don't 
think big fat Mozilla would be missed by many users.

Fran


On Nov 19, 2004, at 6:05 AM, 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?
>
> Thank you a lot in advance for any comments and have a nice day!
>
> Martin Pitt
> on behalf of the Ubuntu Developers
>
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