Dropping support for Mozilla suite?
Simon Taplin
simon.taplin at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 14:55:24 UTC 2004
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
>
>
>
I woundn't miss Mozilla on the actual installation CD but it would be
nice for it to still be available on the universe.
Simon
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