Dropping support for Mozilla suite?

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I like and use Mozilla suite.



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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