Re: Firefox and Fedora

[Gareth Russell]

As far as I know Paul, Fedora will be sticking with the main Mozilla web
browser for the foreseeable future. This is mainly due to the fact that
Firefox is meant to be a very lightweight client and not a full featured
browser like Mozilla is, and Firefox still hasn't reached a 1.0 version
as of yet. Its still too new.

Hope that helps

Gareth Russell (Ug)
FedoraForum.org Administrator

Firefox and Fedora

[Warren Togami]

Gareth Russell wrote:
>  As far as I know Paul, Fedora will be sticking with the main Mozilla
> web
>  browser for the foreseeable future. This is mainly due to the fact that
>  Firefox is meant to be a very lightweight client and not a full featured
>  browser like Mozilla is, and Firefox still hasn't reached a 1.0 version
>  as of yet. Its still too new.
>  
>  Hope that helps
>  
>  Gareth Russell (Ug)
>  FedoraForum.org Administrator
>   
I do not know where you get your information.  I cannot speak for the 
entire organization or strategic plans, but the general feeling that I 
get from the other developers is that they are positive about the 
direction that Firefox and Thunderbird is heading.

Technical blockers of both applications are the lack of automatic import 
capability.  If such capability existed, they could possibly replace 
Mozilla and it may be possible to remove mozilla.  Also applications 
that depend on mozilla-nss and other mozilla components would need to be 
adapted to work with the equivalent in firefox.

Keep in mind that even if these technical challenges are solved, this is 
no guarantee that Firefox/Thunderbird will become the new standards. 
This is a decision that the desktop team still has to make in the future.

Fedora Extras Firefox has already obtained approval to use the "official 
build only" trademark enforced official Firefox icon, and we are 
currently asking for permission to use the same for the thunderbird 
theme.  I personally really like the Firefox icon, but have not yet seen 
the thunderbird theme.  In any case either could be replaced later by a 
Bluecurve replacement should the Fedora Project decide to do so.

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1460
Fedora Extras development of the next firefox and thunderbird package 
revisions.

Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com