Firefox and Fedora

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon May 3 19:45:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:04:22AM -0400, duncan brown wrote:
> > As I understand it, those two questions basically answer each other.
> > Firefox and Thunderbird are both pre-1.0.
> pre 1.0 means nothing as far as production ready.  version numbers are
> arbitrary, and the open source community is alot more hesitant to label
> things 1.0 than alot of things on the windows side of town.

Yes, but to put it back in the context that got snipped out: Mozilla Firefox
hasn't yet replaced Mozilla Seamonkey, which is what that pre-1.0 basically
signifies in this case.


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