Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 16:16:12 UTC 2006


On 9/27/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> Benjy Grogan wrote:
> > On 9/27/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:

> A web browser is important yes.  But does it really matter which one?
> Seriously.  As long as people can buy stuff off ebay and amazon, view
> porn, count how many myspace friends they have today, send webmail, look
> up music lyrics, or whatever it is people do on the web, that's all they
> really care about.
>

But I want my SVG porn singing the latest itunes on my RHEL-4 box!

> Besides, GNOME and gaim are applications designed and written for you
> the Linux user in mind (GNOME arguably is done with the Fedora user in
> mind), and we have sway with what goes in to that codebase.  Firefox is
> written with the Windows user in mind and if you find bugs, I am not
> guaranteed to be able to fix them because I (on behalf of Fedora or Red
> Hat) can't make changes to the source code without getting approval from
> the Mozilla Corporation pursuant to their trademarking guidelines.
>

IceWeasel!

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