Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Brandon Lozza <brandon at pwnage.ca> wrote:

> On 7/27/10, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 07/28/2010 04:06 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >  > According to this two year-old post, it's possible to build Firefox
> >  > with gstreamer support:
> >  >
> >  >
> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/04/firefox-html5-video-with-gstreamer.html
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Dunno if any of that is true today.
> >  >
> >  > There's precedent for Firefox using system components instead of
> >  > bundled ones. Firefox already uses hunspell instead of its own bundled
> >  > dictionary, for spell checking. It makes sense for Firefox to use
> >  > gstreamer, instead of any bundled codecs.
> >
> >
> > The blog post talks about a non upstreamed patch and Firefox doesn't use
> >  Gstreamer at all now.   It isn't just a matter of a bundled vs system
> >  components at this point.    Non upstreamed patches are not a option for
> >  Firefox for trademark reasons as well.
> >
> >
> >  Rahul
> >
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>
> what about iceweasel or icefox instead
>
> the trademark problem makes it non free
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Then that would make most Linux distributions non-free, including Fedora.
So, meh. Fedora also has a policy of trying not to add patches to their own
packages, so it jives just fine with Mozilla's trademark policy.

Plus, those names suck, keep the Mozilla Firefox name.
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