[Bug 396928] Re: Firefox 3.5 identifies as Shiretoko

[James]

This has to be one of the more obscure & odd decisions made in Ubuntu.

I installed the package firefox-3.5 and went to run it (I use KDE4) - hit Alt+F2 type "firefox" and both Firefox 2 and 3 turn up in KRunner results. No trace of Firefox 3.5.
Check Kickoff and there is no trace of Firefox 3.5 in the menus either.
Recheck that the firefox-3.5 package has been installed correctly.. yep it is.

Search again for the browser and I notice something with firefox-like
logo called "Preview Browser, Shiretoko Web Browser" in the Kickoff
menu.. Open it and what looks 100% like Firefox launches.

All this does is serve to confuse the end user. When nearly everyone on
the planet refers to Mozilla Firefox as "Firefox" it seems an odd
decision to suddenly start referring to it as a special Ubuntu codename.

At this point I'm still unsure whether or not I have the stable version
of Firefox 3.5 installed on my machine (and I need to know that for
website development).

This may be "by design" but it's design by committee. In addition,
quoting an obscure website that seems to have nothing to do with Ubuntu
and which includes what looks like a quote from an IRC log with an
apparent reason behind this decision just serves to confuse things even
further.


Why on earth can't it just be called "Firefox 3.5" so it's at least findable? I note that my non-default Firefox 2.0 (which I have installed for website testing purposes) is called "Web Browser, Firefox 2 Web Browser" in kickoff.


Installed package:

$ aptitude show firefox-3.5
Package: firefox-3.5
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 3609k
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), xulrunner-1.9.1 (>= 1.9.1), libasound2 (> 1.0.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
         libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnspr4-0d (>= 4.7.3-0ubuntu1~),
         libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), firefox-3.5-branding | abrowser-3.5-branding
Recommends: ubufox
Suggests: firefox-3.5-gnome-support (= 3.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1), latex-xft-fonts, libthai0
Conflicts: firefox-3.1 (< 3.1~b4~hg20090317)
Replaces: firefox-3.1
Provides: firefox-3.1, www-browser
Description: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
 Firefox delivers safe, easy web browsing. A familiar user interface, enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft, and integrated search
 let you get the most out of the web.


$ cat /usr/share/app-install/desktop/firefox-3.5.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
X-AppInstall-Package=firefox-3.5-branding
X-AppInstall-Popcon=251
X-AppInstall-Section=universe

Version=1.0
Name=Shiretoko Web Browser
Comment=Firefox 3.5 Beta
GenericName=Preview Browser
Exec=firefox-3.5 %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=firefox-3.5
Categories=Application;Network;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;
StartupWMClass=Firefox
StartupNotify=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=app-install-data

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Firefox 3.5 identifies as Shiretoko
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