Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Wed Jul 14 19:16:58 UTC 2004


Christopher Aillon wrote:

> dragoran wrote:
>
>> There is no reason to replace mozilla some people preffer it some not.
>> Just add Firefox and make it selectable in preffered applications.
>
>
> Actually, there are several:
>
> 1. Mozilla (Seamonkey) is considered deprecated by mozilla.org.  
> "Firefox is the future."
> 2. As a result of #1, more development happens for Firefox; bugs are 
> more likely to get fixed in it.

Yep, though there still is a community around the suite (seamonkey).

> 3. No future Mozilla threads along the lines of: 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00315.html

That won't happen for a long while AFAICT.

> 4. Shipping two mozilla.org branded browsers is double the work of 
> shipping one.  And let me assure you that shipping one is plenty of work.

I'm sure.

That said, I prefer thunderbird and firefox over seamonkey, so you have 
another vote to drop seamonkey (mozilla).





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