Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Apr 25 21:58:31 UTC 2010


Mail Lists wrote:
>   If it was fedora branded then I'd guess a goodly chunk would just go
> and install the upstream anyway coz they would not know nor trust the
> browser called 'Fedora-Browser' or whatever.
> 
>   Those wishing to use firefox will use firefox - those wishing to use
> google-chrome will use it (in spite of chromium sounding similar by the
> by, it was far less functional).
> 
>  To be honest - i had never heard of iceweasel (yeh I get the name now)
> until this thread .. but I sure have heard of firefox/thunderbird.

If we use the same name as Debian and get the press to publish articles with 
headlines like "Iceweasel is the Linux Firefox" (we don't have to worry 
about trademark issues with such a statement if THEY do it for us :-p), that 
might help.

        Kevin Kofler



More information about the devel mailing list